Species Myadora brevis (Sowerby, 1829)
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Pandora brevis Sowerby, G.B. 1827-1829. Observations on a few of the remarkable shells collected by Mr Samuel Stuchbury on the coast of some of the Islands of the Australasian and Polynesian groups. In, Stutchury Catalogue. [3, fig. 2].
Type data:
Status unknown, Port Jackson, NSW, Australia. - Myadora triggi Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [141, fig. 136].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA D.13291, Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia, 19-24 fathoms.
Generic Combinations
- Anatina brevis (Sowerby, 1829). —
Stutchbury, S. 1830. On two new genera of Testaceous Mollusca, and five new species of the genus Anatina, lately discovered at Port Jackson, New South Wales. Zoological Journal London 5(17): 95-101, pls 42-43 [99, pl. 43, figs. 1-2] (new combination) - Myadora brevis (Sowerby, 1829). —
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [216, fig. 633]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, in sandy mud, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
To 44 m
General References
Checa, A.G. & Harper, E.M. 2010. Spikey bivalves: intra-periostracal crystal growth in anomalodesmatans. Biological Bulletin 219: 231-248 (included)
Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [150-151, fig. 141] (as Myadora triggi)
Healy, J.M., Rüdiger, B. & Mikkelsen, P.M 2008. Spermatozoa of the Anomalodesmata (Bivalvia, Mollusca) with special reference to relationships within the group. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 89(4): 339-350 (included in study)
Huber, M. & Tran, B. 2010. Myadora brevis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1827). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506788 (Accessed on 2015-01-14)
Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [15]
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [216, fig. 633]
Stutchbury, S. 1830. On two new genera of Testaceous Mollusca, and five new species of the genus Anatina, lately discovered at Port Jackson, New South Wales. Zoological Journal London 5(17): 95-101, pls 42-43 [99, pl. 43, figs 1-2] (as Anatina brevis)
Taylor, J.D., Williams, S.T., Glover, E.A. & Dyal, P. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes. Zoologica Scripta 36(6): 587-606 (included)
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 | ||
| 18-Jul-2011 | MODIFIED |