Species Foegia novaezelandiae (Bruguière, 1789)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Penicillus novaezelandiae Bruguière, J.G. 1789. Histoire Naturelle des Ver. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par de matieres. Historie Naturelle des Vers et Mollusques 1: 1-150, pls 1-95 [129].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1968668, New Zealand (error) corrected to Swan River area, Western Australia.
• Aspergillum agglutinans Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [430].

 

Generic Combinations

• Brechites (Foegia) novaezelandiae (Bruguiére, 1789). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [222]
• Foegia novaezelandiae (Bruguière, 1789).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Andaman Sea to Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand.

 

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. [777]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [222]

Morton, B. 2004. The biology and functional morphology of Foegia novaezelandiae (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Clavagelloidea) from Western Australia. Malacologia 46: 37–55

Smith, B.J. 1971. A revision of the family Clavagellidae (Pelecypoda, Mollusca) from Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 2: 135-161 [152, pl. 12, figs 20-23]

 

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)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	ABRS
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	PHOLADOMYIDA	25-Oct-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		14-Jul-2011	MODIFIED