Species Pisidium (Euglesa) carum (Cotton, 1953)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Australpera cara Cotton, B.C. 1953. New Species and Records of Mollusca from South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 76: 21-26, 2 pls [21, pl. 2, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA D14454 (right valve only), Brown Hill Creek, western slopes of Lofty Ranges, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA D14454 (1 specimen).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kuiper, J.G.J. 1983. The Sphaeriidae of Australia. Basteria 47: 3-52 [29].

Generic Combinations

• Pisidium (Euglesa) carum (Cotton, 1953). —
  Korniushin, A.V. 2000. Review of the Family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 41-102 [85] (subgeneric arrangement)
• Pisidium carum (Cotton, 1953). —
  Kuiper, J.G.J. 1983. The Sphaeriidae of Australia. Basteria 47: 3-52 [28]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Coastal and inland streams.

General References

Korniushin, A.V. 2000. Review of the Family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 41-102 [85]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [186]

History of changes