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

Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Leda Schumacher, 1817

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Species group names

*Ledella bushae*	Warén, 1978	synonym
*Ledella crassa*	Knudsen, 1970	synonym
*Ledella turnerae*	F. R. Bernard, 1989	synonym
*Leda messanensis*	Jeffreys, 1870 sensu A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898	misapplied name

Literature

basis of record	Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
additional source	Knudsen J. (1970) The systematics and biology of abyssal and hadal Bivalvia. Galathea Reports 11 : 1-241, pls 1-20.
additional source	Tan, K. S. (2021). Deep-sea Protobranchia (Bivalvia) from the SJADES biodiversity cruise, with a description of a new species of Propeleda (Nuculanidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. suppl. 36: 346-385.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ledella ultima (E. A. Smith, 1885). 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:428694