Genus Amygdalum Megerle von Muhlfeldt, 1811
Compiler and date details
2011 - Philippe Bouchet & Jean-Pierre Rocroi, generic information
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Amygdalum Mergerle von Mühlfeld, J.C. 1811. Entwurf eines neuen System's der Schalthiergehäuse. Magazin Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 5: 38-72 [69].
Type species:
Amygdalum dendriticum Mergerle, 1811 by monotypy. - Modiella Monterosato, T.A.di 1884. Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie Mediterranee. Palermo : Stabilamento Tipigrafico Verzi 152 pp. [12] [junior homonym; not Modiella Hall, 1883].
Type species:
Modiola polita Verrill & Smith, 1881 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-Pacific, eastern Pacific, Mediterranean, Atlantic
IMCRA
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), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)
General References
Beu, A.G. 2004. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265 [139]
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] [123]
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 [13]
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. [508] (biology and ecology)
Laseron, C. 1956. New South Wales Mussels - a taxonomic review of the family Mytilidae from the Peronian Zoogeographical Province. The Australian Zoologist 12(3): 263-283, figs 1-53 [272]
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] [N278]
Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [53]
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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22-Aug-2023 | BIVALVIA | 22-Aug-2023 | MOVED | Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
22-Sep-2010 | 22-Sep-2010 | MOVED | ||
27-May-2013 | 06-Sep-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
11-Aug-2010 | MODIFIED |