Genus Magellania Bayle, 1880

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• Magellania Bayle, E. 1880. Liste rectificative de quelques noms de genres et d'espèces. Journal de Conchyliologie 28: 240-251 [240] [nom. nov. for Waldheimia King, 1850].

  Type species:

   Terebratula australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 (= Terebratula flavescens Lamarck, 1819) by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [107]; Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1943. A systematic list of the Echinodermata, Foraminifera, Hydroida, Brachiopoda of southern Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 1-36 [32]; Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 2 pp. H523-H927. [H849].
• Waldheimia King, W. 1850. A monograph of the Permian fossils of England. Monograph 3. London : Palaeontological Society xxxvii 258 pp. 29 pls. [junior homonym of Waldheimia Brullé, 1846].

  Type species:

   Terebratula australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 by original designation (= ?Terebratula flavescens Lamarck, 1819).

  Secondary source:

   Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 2 pp. H523-H927. [H849].
• Aerothyris Allan, R.S. 1939. Studies of the Recent and Tertiary Brachiopoda of Australia and New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 4(5): 231-248 pls 29-31 [245].

  Type species:

   Magellania macquariensis Thomson, 1918 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 2 pp. H523-H927. [H848].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521.
• Foster, M.W. 1974. Recent Antarctic and Subantarctic Brachiopods. Antarctic Research Series 21: 1-189 [9] (in part)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

• Australian Antarctic Territory
• Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)
• Macquarie Island (Aust. Terr.)
• Subantarctic Islands
  • Kerguélen Island

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		20-Oct-2010	MODIFIED