Species Chama ruderalis Lamarck, 1819

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chama ruderalis Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [96].
• Chama fimbriata Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Chama. pls 1-5 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 4. [pl.8, fig. 41].
• Chama huttoni Hector, J. 1886. Indian and colonial exhibition, London, 1886. New Zealand court. Detailed catalogue and guide to the geological exhibits. Wellington : Government Printer 101 p. [p.50, fig. 7, no. 7].
• Chama pittensis Marwick, J. 1928. The Tertiary Mollusca of the Chatman Islands, including a generic revision of the New Zealand Pectinidae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 58(4): 432-506, figs 1-148 [466, fig. 49, 51].
• Chama ruderalis australis Abrard, R. 1941. Rectifications de nomenclature concernant Ostrea (Alectryonia) frons Parkinson et Chama fimbriata Reeve. Journal de Conchyliologie 84(2): 197-199 [as variety].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beu, A.G. 2006. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 2. Biostratigraphically useful and new Pliocene to recent Bivalves. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 36(4): 151-338 [216-221]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Distribtuion in Queensland uncertain

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal - 200m; cemented by right or left valve to limestones, rocks and other shells

 

General References

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, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [285, 677; on CD: line 9549]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [52, pl. 24, fig. 150a & 150b]

Marshall, B. & Huber, M. 2015. Chama ruderalis Lamarck, 1819. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504779 (Accessed on 2015-03-30)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	CHAMOIDEA	01-Oct-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		19-Apr-2011	MODIFIED