Species Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819)
Flattened Oyster (for Ostrea procles)
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Ostrea numisma Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [205].
- Ostrea hanleyana Sowerby, G.B. 1871. Monograph of the genus Ostraea. pls 1, 6-33 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 18. [pl. 28, fig. 72].
- Ostrea cerata Hedley, C. 1906. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31(3): 453-479, pls 36-37 [464] [junior homonym; not Ostrea cerata Sowerby, 1871].
- Ostrea thaanumi Dall, W.H., Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H.A. 1938. A manual of the recent and fossil marine Pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Island. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 153: 3-233, pls 1-57 [Date published July 25] [114, pl. 32, figs 1-4].
Type data:
Holotype USNM 484158, Maokuoloe Island, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. - Ostrea procles Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [396, pl. 7, fig. 2] [replacement name].
Generic Combinations
- Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819). —
Taylor, J.D. & Reid, D.G. 1984. The abundance and trophic classification of molluscs upon coral reefs in the Sudanese Red Sea. Journal of Natural History 18 [206] - Parahyotissa (Numismoida) numisma (Lamarck, 1819). —
Harry, H.W. 1985. Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). The Veliger 28(2): 121-158 [132] - Parahyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819). —
Torigoe, K. 2004. Oysters in the world. Part 2. Systematic description of the Recent oysters. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 3(3): 1-63, pls I-XIII, index (1-9) [6]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Dampier, WA record from shells only; Indo-Pacific from East Africa to French Polynesia and Hawaii. South to Sydney according to the Australian Museum Sydney mollusc collection
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Attached to rocks, coral or debris
General References
Harry, H.W. 1981. Nominal species of living oysters proposed during the last fifty years. The Veliger 24(1): 39-45 [43] (author notes that Ostrea procles is a probable synonym of Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819), in contrast to Thomson (1954) who place the name in synonymy of Hyotissa hyotis. The synonymies of both taxa need further substanciation and clarity. A logical consequence of Harry placing O. procles in the synonymy of H. numisma is that the preoccupied name Ostrea cerata Hedley, 1906 (not Ostrea cerata Sowerby, 1871) that O. procles replaced follows suit)
Harry, H.W. 1985. Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). The Veliger 28(2): 121-158 [132, fig. 15]
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 [12]
Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [537, fig. 173D-E] (as Ostrea hanleyana Sowerby, 1871)
Kirkendale, L., Lee, T., Baker, P. & ÓFoighil, D. 2004. Oysters of the Conch Republic (Florida Keys): a molecular phylogenetic study of Parahyotissa mcginty, Teskeyostrea weberi and Ostreola equestris. Malacologia 46(2): 309-326
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [130, fig. 324]
Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [89] (in genus Hyotissa)
Paulay, G. 1996. New records and synonymies of Hawaiian bivalves (Mollusca). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 45: 18-29 [24]
Slack-Smith, S.M. & Bryce, C.W. 2004. A survey of the benthic molluscs of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 66: 221-245 [237] (one identified specimen and other with ? No indication whether specimen was alive)
Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2004. Diversity and distribution of subtidal benthic molluscs from the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia; results of the 1999 dredge survey (DA2/99). Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 66: 247-291 [262] (dead shells from WA)
Tëmkin, I. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(342): 1-28 [4, figs 2, 5, 6, 8, 10]
Torigoe, K. 2004. Oysters in the world. Part 2. Systematic description of the Recent oysters. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 3(3): 1-63, pls I-XIII, index (1-9) [6-7, pl. 1, fig. 5a-5e]
Common Name References
Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [275] (Flattened Oyster)
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) |
| 11-Aug-2014 | 28-Jul-2014 | MOVED | ||
| 11-Aug-2014 | OSTREOIDEA | 24-Jan-2011 | MOVED | Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) |
| 11-Aug-2014 | 20-Jan-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-Jan-2011 | MODIFIED |