Species Acar botanica (Hedley, 1917)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Barbatia pusilla Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits etc. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 912-935 [931] [junior homonym; not Byssoarca pusilla Sowerby, 1833].

  Secondary source:

   Hedley, C. 1917. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XIII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 680–719 [680].
• Arca botanica Hedley, C. 1917. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XIII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 680–719 [680, pl. li, figs 33, 34, 35].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.11382 dry, Sydney, Port Jackson, Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°52‘30‘S 151°14‘31.2‘E]; AM C.141750 dry, Sydney, Port Jackson, Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°52‘30‘S 151°14‘31.2‘E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Barbatia (Acar) botanica (Hedley, 1917). —
  Jansen, P. 1995. Seashells of Central New South Wales. Townsville pp. 1-129. [92, fig. 385]
• Acar botanica (Hedley, 1917). —
  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. [561]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Tasmanian record from Australian Museum Sydney

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, under rocks, under stones.

 

General References

Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M5]

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. [561]

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 [8] (as Acar botanica)

Jansen, P. 1995. Seashells of Central New South Wales. Townsville pp. 1-129. [92, fig. 385]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [52, fig. 72]

 

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)
28-Jul-2014		28-Jul-2014	MOVED
28-Aug-2012		28-Aug-2012	MOVED
07-Aug-2012		14-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		01-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)