Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Protobranchia > Order Nuculanida > Superfamily Nuculanoidea > Family Nuculanidae > Subfamily Ledellinae

Ledella A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leda (Ledella)*	A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897	synonym

Children

Ledella aberrata J. A. Allen & H. L. Sanders, 1996
Ledella bernardi (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897)
Ledella confinis (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Ledella foresti (Métivier, 1982)
Ledella galatheae Knudsen, 1970
Ledella lusitanensis J. A. Allen & F. J. Hannah, 1989
Ledella marisnostri La Perna, 2004
Ledella messanensis (Jeffreys, 1870)
Ledella pustulosa (Jeffreys, 1876)
Ledella similis J. A. Allen & F. J. Hannah, 1989
Ledella sublevis A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898
Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)

Literature

original description	Verrill A.E. & Bush K.J. (1897). Revision of the genera of Ledidae and Nuculidae of the Atlantic coast of the United States. American Journal of Science. ser. 4, 3: 51-63.
additional source	Allen, J. A.; Hannah, F. J. (1989). Studies on deep-sea Protobranchia (Bivalvia). The subfamily Ledellinae (Nuculanidae). Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History (Zoology. 55(2): 123-171.
redescription	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
subsequent type designation	ICZN. (1985). Opinion 1306. Ledella bushae Warén, 1978 is the type species of Ledella Verrill & Bush, 1897 (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 42 (2):146-147.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ledella A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1897. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:182795