Epicodakia consettiana Iredale, 1930

Glover, Emily A. & Taylor, John D., 2007, Diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves on coral reefs: Lucinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of New Caledonia and Lifou, Zoosystema 29 (1), pp. 109-181 : 137-138

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5392295
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14936654
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scientific name	Epicodakia consettiana Iredale, 1930
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Epicodakia consettiana Iredale, 1930 View in CoL

( Figs 17 View FIG ; 18A View FIG )

Lucina minima Tenison-Woods, 1876: 30 View in CoL (non Lucina minima Roemer, 1836 View in CoL ).

Epicodakia consettiana Iredale, 1930: 391 View in CoL (replacement name for L. minima View in CoL ).

TYPE MATERIAL. — Syntype of L. minima Tenison-Woods, 1876 (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; see May 1903: 114, fig. 12).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Badger Island, Tasmania.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Australia. Western Port, Victoria ( NMV). — Edithburgh, South Australia ( SAM). — Houtman Abrolhos Islands, western Australia ( BMNH).

DISTRIBUTION. — Southern Australia.

DESCRIPTION

Small (L to 25 mm), white, sometimes yellow internally, oval, longer than high, not inflated. Sculpture of many (up to 75) narrow, low, closely-spaced radial ribs crossed by regularly-spaced commarginal lamellae, forming small scales on ribs ( Fig. 17C View FIG ). Lunule narrowly lanceolate, not sunken and slightly asymmetrical, with RV extending into LV. Ligament short, external. LV with 2 cardinal teeth, anterior larger and bifid, posterior tiny; two posterior and two anterior lateral teeth; RV with two cardinals, anterior small, posterior larger, and usually bifurcate, with single anterior and posterior laterals. Anterior adductor scar short and detached from pallial line for about 1/2 length. Pallial line entire. Shell margin outside pallial line glossy, edge finely denticulate.

REMARKS

Codakia perobliqua Tate, 1892 and Talocodakia kennethi Iredale, 1936 View in CoL are possibly conspecific with E. consettiana View in CoL but further analysis of shell variation is needed to confirm this.