Species Bathyarca (Microcuculaea) adelaideana (Iredale, 1929)

• Microcuculaea adelaideana Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [159].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.32051 dry, 40 ml south of Cape Wiles, South Australia, Australia [35°39‘0‘S 136°49‘58.8‘E].

Generic Combinations

• Bathyarca adelaideana (Iredale, 1929). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [60, fig. 95]
• Bathyarca (Microcuculaea) adelaideana (Iredale, 1929).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 165 metres.

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [253, fig. 7]

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] [46, 47, fig. 26]

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.

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [60, fig. 95] (ecology, distribution)

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [253] (used for the available name Microcucullaea adelaideana) (Little Cowl Shell)

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