Genus Amusium Röding, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amusium Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [165].

  Type species:

   Ostrea pleuronectes Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Herrmannsen, A.N. 1846. Indicis Generum Malacozoorum Primordia. Cassellis : Theodor Fischer Vol. 1, Fasc. 1 & 2, pp. 1-232. [47] (as Pecten pleuronectes Linn.).
• Pleuronectes Bronn, H.G. 1831. Ergebnisse meiner naturhistorisch-ökonomischen Reisen. Zweyter Theil. Skizzen und Ausarbeitungen über Italien. Nach einem zweyten Besuche im Jahre 1827 entworfen. Mit vier Steindrucktafeln. Heidelberg, Leipzig. (Groos) pp. I-XVIII [= 1-18], 1-686. [624] [junior homonym; not Pleuronectes Linnaeus, 1758].
• Pleuronectia Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [388].

  Type species:

   Pleuronectia laevigata Swainson, 1840 by monotypy.
• Pleuronopecten Tucker-Rowland, H.I. 1938. The Atlantic and Gulf Coast Tertiary Pectinidae of the United States. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 2 13: pp. iii + 76 [73] [replacement name; for Pleuronectia].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Dijkstra, H.H. & Marshall, B.A. 1997. Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) of Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands. Molluscan Research 18(1): 73-114, pls 1-13 [95]

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.

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 [11] (general reference)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [18, pl. 7]

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N349-N350]

 

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)
15-Feb-2011		15-Feb-2011	MOVED
26-Jun-2013		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
		06-Jan-2011	MODIFIED