Species Acar squamosa (Lamarck, 1819)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arca squamosa Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [45].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, King Island, Australia (=Nouvelle Hollande, à l'ile King).
• Arca irudina Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [41].
• Barbatia (Acar) laminata Angas, G.F. 1865. On the marine molluscan fauna of the Province of South Australia, with a list of all the species known up to the present time, together with remarks on their habitats and distribution, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 155-"180" (=190).

  Type data:

   Status unknown, St. Vincent's Gulf, south Australia.
• Arca maccoyi Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. On some new marine Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 14: 55-65 [61].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown possibly NMV.

 

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. [131, text fig.; 561]

 

Generic Combinations

• Barbatia squamosa (Lamarck, 1819). —
  Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1904. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part VIII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 17(1): 220-266 [241]
• Acar squamosa (Lamarck, 1819). —
  Phillips, D.A.B., Handreck, C., Bock, P.E., Burn, R., Smith, B.J. & Staples, D.A. (eds) 1984. Coastal Invertebrates of Victoria: an atlas of selected species. Melbourne : Marine Research Group of Victoria & Museum of Victoria 168 pp. [82]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Arca reticulata [of other authors; Australian records].
• Barbatia (Acar) riculata [sic] Gmelin, 1971 [error for reticulata]. —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [50, sp. 68]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

VIC around southern Australia to SW WA, and northern TAS

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

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; text fig. on p. 131]

 

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	ADDED