Species Brechites australis (Chenu, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aspergillum australe Chenu, M. 1843. Aspergillum. 1-4, pls 1-4 in Illustrations Conchyliologiques. Paris : Fortum & Masson Vol. 1. [3, pl. 3, fig. 1, 1a].
• Aspergillum cumingianum Chenu, M. 1843. Aspergillum. 1-4, pls 1-4 in Illustrations Conchyliologiques. Paris : Fortum & Masson Vol. 1. [3, pl. 3, figs 4-4a].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 19718, Australian seas.
• Aspergillum incertus Chenu, M. 1843. Aspergillum. 1-4, pls 1-4 in Illustrations Conchyliologiques. Paris : Fortum & Masson Vol. 1. [4, pl. 4, figs 5-5a, 6-6a].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1968669/70, Barrow Is., Roeburne, Dampier area of N. Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Brechites (Brechites) vaginiferus australis (Chenu, 1843). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [222]
• Brechites (Brechites) australis (Chenu, 1843).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [16, fig. 16]

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] [160, fig. 153] (as Humphreyia incerta Chenu, 1843)

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. [485, 776]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [222]

Smith, B.J. 1971. A revision of the family Clavagellidae (Pelecypoda, Mollusca) from Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 2: 135-161 [143, pl. 10, figs 9-10] (as Brechites (Brechites) australis)

Smith, B.J. 1976. Revision of the Recent species of the family Clavagellidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 3: 187-208 [200, fig. 20]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [16] (Australia Watering Pot)

 

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)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	PHOLADOMYIDA	04-Aug-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		14-Jul-2011	MODIFIED