Species Austronucula papuensis (Bergmans, 1978)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nucula papuensis Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [702-704, figs 52-54].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.100961, Cape York Peninsula, Albany Passage, Queensland, Australia, 7-26 m [10°45‘0‘S, 142°37‘1.2‘E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Austronucula papuensis (Bergmans, 1978). —
  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. [523]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East and west of the Torres Strait, south to Hope Island, Great Barrier Reef. Also known from Papua New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

 

General References

Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [702] (taxonomy, ecology, distribution)

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. [523]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [34]

 

History of changes

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