• CARDITOIDEA Férussac, 1822.

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2010. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families; with a classiication of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184 [pp. 113-133]

Gofas, S. 2010. Carditoidea Férussac, 1822. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=14631 (Accessed on 2017-05-25)

History of changes

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part A) pp. xvi, 1-563. [324-325]

Bieler, R., Carter, J.G. & Coan, E.V. 2010. Classiication of Bivalve Families. pp. 113-133 in Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families; with a classiication of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184 [126]

Coan, E.V. & Valentich-Scott, P. 2012. Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2 vols. pp.1258.

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. [258-259, 660-662]

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

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54

Malchus, N. 2010. Shell tubules in Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(4): 401-403

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124

Mikkelsen, P.M. & Bieler, R. 2008. Seashells of southern Florida. Living marine mollusks of the Florida keys and adjacent regions. Princeton & Oxford : Princeton University Press 503 pp. [182-185]

History of changes

Introduction

Subfamily Carditellinae is not recognised by Carter et al. (2011).

General References

Carter, J.G., Altaba, C.R., Anderson, L.C., Araujo, R., Biakov, A.S., Bogan, A.E., Campbell, D.C., Campbell, M., Chen, J.H., Cope, J.C.W., Delvene, G., Dijkstra, H.H., Fang, Z.J., Gardner, R.N., Gavrilova, V.A., Goncharova, I.A., Harries, P.J., Hartman, J.H., Hautmann, M., et al. 2011. A synoptical classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca). University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4: 1-47

Coan, E.V. 2003. The tropical eastern Pacific species of the Condylocardiidae (Bivalvia). Nautilus 117(2): 47-61

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. [660] (Huber resurrects this Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 name despite the suggestions by Coan (2003) to await molecular analysis)

History of changes

• Carditella Smith, E.A. 1881. Mollusca and Molluscoidea. pp. 22-44, pls 3-5 in Günther, A. (ed.). Account of the zoological collections made during the survey of the HMS 'Alert' in the Straits of Magellan and on the coast of Patagonia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881 [42, 43].

  Type species:

   Carditella palida E.A. Smith, 1885 by subsequent designation, see Dall, W.H. 1903. Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the Silex beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River, including in many cases, a complete revision of the generic groups treated and their American Tertiary species. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia 3(6): 1219-1654 [1437].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Pacific

IMCRA

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)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Coan, E.V. 2003. The tropical eastern Pacific species of the Condylocardiidae (Bivalvia). Nautilus 117(2): 47-61 [47, 57]

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] [200]

Harris, G.F. 1897. Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). The Australasian Tertiary Mollusca. London : British Museum of Natural History Part 1 407 pp., 8 pls. [362]

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. [660] (also moves jaffaensis, type of Vimentum to Carditella)

Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240] (subgeneric arrangement)

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [111]

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] [N550]

Oostingh, C.H. 1935. Die mollusken des Pliozäns von Boeniajoe (Java). Wetenschappelijke Mededelingen, Bandoeng, Dienst van de Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië 26: 1-247 [167]

Tate, R. 1887. The Lamellibranchs of the older Tertiary of Australia. Part II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 142-189 [189]

History of changes

• Vimentum jaffaensis Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [188].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.12913, Cape Jaffa, South Australia, 130 fathoms.

Generic Combinations

• Cyclocardia (Vimentum) jaffaensis (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [242]
• Carditella jaffaensis (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

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] [198-199]

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. [661] (moves this taxon to Carditella, and as a secondary consequence, the genus Vimentum fall into the synonymy of Carditella)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [242]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [318]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [17]

History of changes

• Carditella mawsoni Dell, R.K. 1972. Some Mollusca from the vicinity of Mawson Base, Antarctica, resulting from Anare collections. Records of the Dominion Museum 8(1): 1-7 [3].

Distribution

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Carditella mawsoni Dell, 1972. De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds). The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS). http://www.scarmarbin.be/rams.php?p=taxdetails&id=197087 on 2011-03-14

History of changes

• Carditella subtrigona Tate, R. 1887. Descriptions of some new species of South Australian marine and fresh-water Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 62-75 [70, pl. IV, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Carditella (Carditella) subtrigona Tate, 1887.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

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] [200]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

Tate, R. 1891. A second supplement to a list of the lamellibranch and palliobranch Mollusca of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 265-269 [268]

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [352]

History of changes

• Carditella (Carditella) vincentensis Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [354, pl. XVI, figs 20, 21].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.12921, Gulf of St. Vincent, 20 fathoms.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Carditella vincentensis Verco, 1908.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

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]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

History of changes

• Carditellona Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272].

  Type species:

   Carditella angasi Smith, 1885 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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. [660]

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 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [10, 50, 111]

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] [N550]

History of changes

• Carditella angasi Smith, E.A. 1885. Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(35): 1-341, 25 pls [217].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, New South Wales.

Generic Combinations

• Carditellona angasi (E.A. Smith, 1885). —
  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 [17]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Carditella (Carditellona) angasi E.A. Smith, 1885.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

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 [235]

History of changes

• Carditella (Carditellona) torresi Smith, E.A. 1885. Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(35): 1-341, 25 pls [217, pl. XV, figs 8, 8a].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

Generic Combinations

• Carditellona torresi (E.A. Smith, 1885).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

NT added from Australian Museum Sydney mollusc collection records

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Hedley, C. 1918. Narrative of an expedition of exploration in North Western Australia by Herbert Basedow. Special Report. Mollusca. Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch 18: 263-283 [266]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

History of changes

• Carditellopsis Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272].

  Type species:

   Carditella elegantula Tate & May, 1901 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Europe, Western Pacific

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Bieler, R. & Mikkelsen, P.M. 2006. Bivalvia–a look at the branches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 223–235

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. [660]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240]

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] [N550]

Sasaki, T. 2008. Micromolluscs in Japan: taxonomic composition, habitats, and future topics. Zoosymposia 1: 147-232 [198]

History of changes

• Carditella elegantula Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 [463, text fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Holotype TMH 7426/E85, Blackman's Bay, Tasmania.
• Hamacuna radiata Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [36, figs 6, 6a].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.90553, NSW, off Long Reef, Collaroy, Sydney, 26 m [33°45'S, 151°19'1.2"E].

Generic Combinations

• Carditellopsis elegantula (Tate & May, 1901). —
  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 [17]
• Choniocardia (Carditellopsis) elegantula (Tate & May, 1901). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240, fig. 719]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Gatliff, J.H. 1907. Additions to the Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 20(1): 31-37 [37]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240, fig. 719]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [112] (synonomy)

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [352]

History of changes

• Carditella infans Smith, E.A. 1885. Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(35): 1-341, 25 pls [218, pl. XV, figs 10, 10a].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

Generic Combinations

• Carditellopsis infans (E.A. Smith, 1885).
• Choniocardia (Carditellopsis) infans (E.A. Smith, 1885).

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [240, fig. 720] (as Choniocardia (Carditellopsis) infans (E.A. Smith, 1885))

Tate, R. 1887. A revision of the Recent lamellibranch and palliobranch Mollusca of South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 76-111 [100] (record in Australia)

History of changes

• Carditella (Carditella) valida Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [353, pl. XVI, figs 22-24].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.12920, Encounter Bay, SA.
• Carditella valida Verco, 1908.

Generic Combinations

• Carditellopsis valida (Verco, 1908).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Carditella valida Verco, 1908.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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.

General References

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] [201]

Huber, M. 2010. Carditellopsis valida (Verco, 1908). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504979 (Accessed on 2017-05-25)

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. [240]

History of changes

• Hamacuna Cotton, B.C. 1931. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, Southern Australia, No. 2. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(3): 333-354 [Date published June 30] [350].

  Type species:

   Cuna hamata Hedley & May, 1908 (= Hamacuna hamata (Hedley & May,1908)) by original designation.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

General References

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] [183]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [173]

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. [660]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [174]

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [36]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124

History of changes

• Cuna hamata Hedley, C. & May, W.L. 1908. Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 108-125, pls 22-25 [124, pl. 25, figs. 33-36].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.315602, TAS, off Cape Pillar, 183 m. 17-18 Dec. 1907. [43°13'1.2"S, 148°4'58.8"E].

Generic Combinations

• Hamacuna hamata (Hedley & May, 1908). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1931. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, Southern Australia, No. 2. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(3): 333-354 [Date published June 30] [350]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

General References

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] [183]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [174]

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. [660] (as "Hamacuna" in strict sense)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [174]

May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. [Date published 31 July 1923] [pl. VI, fig. 16]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [112]

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [355]

History of changes

General References

Bieler, R., Carter, J.G. & Coan, E.V. 2010. Classiication of Bivalve Families. pp. 113-133 in Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families; with a classiication of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184 [126]

Coan, E.V. 2003. The tropical eastern Pacific species of the Condylocardiidae (Bivalvia). Nautilus 117(2): 47-61

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. [258-259, 660-662]

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54

Malchus, N. 2010. Shell tubules in Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(4): 401-403

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85

Mikkelsen, P.M. & Bieler, R. 2008. Seashells of southern Florida. Living marine mollusks of the Florida keys and adjacent regions. Princeton & Oxford : Princeton University Press 503 pp. [182-185]

History of changes

• Austrocardiella Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [44].

  Type species:

   Condylocardia isosceles Cotton, 1930 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

History of changes

• Condylocardia isosceles Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [238, fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10108, Backstairs Passage, South Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Condylocuna isosceles (Cotton, 1930). —
  Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [40]
• Benthocardiella isosceles (Cotton, 1930). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [170]
• Austrocardiella isosceles (Cotton, 1930). —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [44]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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

Continental shelf, continental shelf, marine, sand.

General References

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] [206]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [196]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [170]

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [44]

History of changes

• Austrocardiella pouli Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM S12719, off Albany, 76 m, Western Australia [35°6'S 118°39'E].
  Paratype(s) AM C.381978, C.382308, off Albany, 76 m, Western Australia [35°6'S 118°39'E]
  Comment: original reference seen.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand.

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [46]

History of changes

• Condylocardia trifoliata Hedley, C. 1906. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31(3): 453-479, pls 36-37 [475, pl. 37, figs 20-23].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.19393, Masthead Island, Capricorn Group, GBR. [23°31'58.8"S, 151°45'E]
  Comment: 31-37m. 25-29 Oct. 1904.
• Benthocardiella vitrea Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [41, figs 15, 15a].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.90566, Narrabeen Beach, Sydney. [33°42'S, 151°18'E]
  Comment: Pre 1951. C.F. Laseron Coll.
• Condylocuna cambrica Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.25120, Chinamans Beach, Middle Harbour [33°48'57.6"S, 151°14'52.8"E].

Generic Combinations

• Condylocuna trifoliata (Hedley, 1906). —
  Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272]
• Austrocardiella trifoliata (Hedley, 1906). —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [48]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

General References

Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272]

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

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. (p. 168, fig. 476 as Benthocardiella vitrea, p. 170, fig. 485 as Condlocuna trifoliata, fig. 486 as Condylocuna cambrica)

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [41, figs 13-13a]

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [48, figs 15a-l, 16]

Verco, J.C. 1907. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part V. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31: 99-110 [Date published Dec.] [109]

History of changes

• Benthocardiella Powell, W.B. 1930. New species of New Zealand Mollusca from shallow-water dredgings. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 60: 532-543, pls 60-62 [Date published 31 March] [533].

  Type species:

   Benthocardiella pusilla Powell, 1930 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand and Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [52]

History of changes

• Benthocardiella burtonae Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [53].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.388190, Collaroy Beach, N of Sydney, New South Wales [33°43'40.8"S 151°18'E].
  Paratype(s) AM C.379873, Collaroy Beach, N of Sydney, New South Wales, [33°43.7'S 151°18'E]
  Comment: shell sand.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [53, figs 17a-g, 19]

History of changes

• Benthocardiella darwinensis Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.388191, off Emery Point, Darwin, Northern Territory [12°27'S 130°49'1.2"E].
  Paratype(s) AM C.379877, off Emery Point, Darwin, Northern Territory [12°27'S 130°49'E]
  Comment: on sandbar. original reference seen.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [54, figs 18a-h, 19]

History of changes

• Condylocardia Bernard, F. 1896. Diagnoses de Coquilles Nouvelles de Lamellibranches (Genres Hochstetteria et Condylocardia). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2(5): 193-197 [195] [placed on the Official List by Opinion 872, 1969, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 25(6): 216].

  Type species:

   Condylocardia sanctipauli Munier-Chalmas in Bernard, 1896 by original designation ( Condylocardia pauliana Bernard, 1897 [N558]).
• Hippella Mörch, O.A.L. 1860. Beiträge zur Molluskenfauna Central-Amerika's. Malakozoologische Blätter 7: 170-213 [199].

  Type species:

   Hipella hippopus Mörch, 1861 by monotypy (invalid ICZN op. 872).
• Radiocondyla Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272].

  Type species:

   Radiocondyla arizela Iredale, 1936 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Coan, E.V. 2003. The tropical eastern Pacific species of the Condylocardiidae (Bivalvia). Nautilus 117(2): 47-61

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] [202] (with key to species)

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [191] (with key to species)

Iredale, T. 1915. A commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 417-497 [Date published 12 July 1915] [487]

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [39]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [320]

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [27]

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] [N558]

Salas, C. & E. Rolán 1990. Four new species of Condylocardiidae from Cape Verde Islands. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 12(2): 349-363

Salas, C. & R. von Cosel 1991. Taxonomy of tropical West African bivalves III. Four new species of Condylocardiidae from the continental shelf. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 13(3-4): 263-281

History of changes

• Condylocardia cometa Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.379938, SE of King Is., Bass Strait, Tasmania [40°10'30"S, 144°18'36"E].
  Paratype(s) AM C.379940, NW of Sandy cape, Tasmania [41°9'S 144°10.6'E]
  Comment: 51 m. original reference seen.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

West coast of Tasmania

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [28]

History of changes

• Condylocardia limaeformis Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [238, fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10112, Cape Borda, South Australia, 62 fathoms [113 m].
• Condylocardia kunopia Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [39, figs 10, 10a].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.90557, Narrabeen Beach, Sydney, NSW. [33°42'S, 151°18'E]
  Comment: Pre 1951. C.F. Laseron Coll.
• Condylocardia adelaideana Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [194, fig. 195].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.12609, Backstairs Passage, South Australia
  Comment: 22 fathoms [40 m].

Generic Combinations

• Radiocondyla adelaideana (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938). —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [29]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Radiocondyla adelaideana auct. (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938). —
  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] [207]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Algal substrate, continental shelf, intertidal, marine, rock platforms, sand, shallow subtidal, shelly bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 146 m

General References

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] [203]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [194]

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 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. (p. 168 as Condylocardia limaeformis and Condylocardia kunopia, p. 172 as Radiocondyla adelaideana)

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [29-32, figs 4a-p, 5]

History of changes

• Condylocardia notoaustralis Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [239, fig. 13].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10109, Beachport, South Australia, 200 fathoms [366 m].
• Condylocardia rotunda Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [39, figs 11, 11a].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.90558, Narrabeen Beach, Sydney, NSW. [33°42'S, 151°18'E]
  Comment: Pre 1951. C.F. Laseron Coll.
• Radiocondyla jacksonensis Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [42, figs 19, 19a].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.90559, Western Channel, off Sow and Pigs Reef, Sydney Harbour, NSW. [33°50'16.8"S, 151°16'4.8"E]
  Comment: 13-16 m. Pre 1948. C.F. Laseron Coll.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Clay, continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 399 m.

General References

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] [203]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [194]

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 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [168] (p. 168 , fig. 471 as Condylocardia notoaustralis, fig. 470 as Condylocardia rotunda, p. 172, fig. 497 as Radiocondyla jacksonensis)

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [33-39, figs 6a-p, 7A-B, 8, 9]

History of changes

• Carditella pectinata Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype TM 7512/E171, Derwent Estuary, Tasmania.
• Condylocardia acuta Cotton, B.C. 1931. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, Southern Australia, No. 2. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(3): 333-354 [Date published June 30] [353].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10128, Cape Borda, South Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Radyolocondyla acuta (Cotton, 1931). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [174, fig. 500]
• Condylocardia pectinata (Tate & May, 1900). —
  Hedley, C. 1902. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March 1898. Mollusca. Part 1. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 285-324 [318]
• Cuna pectinata (Tate & May, 1900). —
  Hedley, C. & May, W.L. 1908. Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 108-125, pls 22-25 [125, pl. 25, figs. 43-45]
• Radiocondyla pectinata (Tate & May, 1900). —
  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. [307]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Radiocondyla acuta auct. (Cotton, 1931). —
  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] [208]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Algal substrate, continental shelf, continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 750 m.

General References

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] [207]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [195]

Hedley, C. & May, W.L. 1908. Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 108-125, pls 22-25 [125]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. (p. 172 as Radiocondyla pectinata, p. 174 as Radiocondyla acuta)

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [39-41, figs 10a-i, 12]

Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 (fig. 96, 97 illustration of the type)

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [359]

History of changes

• Condylocardia rectangularis Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [237, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10113, off Beachport, South Australia, 40 fathoms [73 m].
• Radiocondyla arizela Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.29082, Off Cape Pillar, Tas. [43°13'1.2"S, 148°4'58.8"E]
  Comment: 183 m. 17-18 Dec. 1907. Coll. and pres. C. Hedley and W.L .May.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 399 m.

General References

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] [203]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [192]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. (p. 168 as Condylocardia rectangularis, p. 172 as Radiocondyla arizela)

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [41-44, figs 11a-k, 12]

History of changes

• Condylocuna Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272] [not available (no description) from Iredale, 1936, Records of the Australian Museum, 19(5): 272. Lamprell & Healy provided a diagnosis and attributed the name Condylocuna to Iredale, 1936 [who had designated a type species]. Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998 Bivalves of Australia, 2: 170].

  Type species:

   Condylocardia projecta Hedley, 1902 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

South Africa, Australia and New Zealand

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

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] [205] (with key to species)

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [40]

Maxwell, P.A. 1969. Middle tertiary Mollusca from North Otago and South Canterbury, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Geology 6(13): 155-185 [172]

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [57]

History of changes

• Condylocuna annieae Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [61] [original reference seen].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.388200, Norfolk Island, Australia [29°1'58.8"S, 167°56'60"E].
  Paratype(s) AM C.380329, Norfolk Island, Australia [29°02'S 167°57'E]; NMNZ M.273096, Norfolk Island, Australia [29°02'S 167°57'E]
  Comment: original reference seen.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

In 31-201 m

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [60-62, figs 12, 22a-f]

History of changes

• Rochefortia io Bartsch, P. 1915. Report on the Turton collection of South African marine mollusks, with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United States National Museum. United States National Museum Bulletin 91: 1-305, pls 1-54 [201, pl. 39, fig. 5, pl. 53, figs 5, 6].
• Condylocuna tricosa Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.388198, W side Heron Is., Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland [23°25'58.8"S, 151°56'60"E].
  Paratype(s) AM C.380338, W side Heron Island, Capricorn Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland [23°26'S 151°57'E]; QM M.068918, W side Heron Island, Capricorn Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland [23°26'S 151°57'E]
  Comment: original reference seen.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Rodridgues Island, South Africa.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental shelf, continental shelf, coral, coral, intertidal, intertidal, intertidal, marine, sand, sand, shallow subtidal, shallow subtidal, shallow subtidal, subtidal, subtidal, subtidal.

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [64]

Oliver, P.G. & Holmes, A.M. 2004. Cryptic bivalves with descriptions of new species from the Rodrigues lagoon. Journal of Natural History 38: 3175-3227 [3214-3216]

History of changes

• Condylocuna jimbecki Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [62] [original reference seen].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMNZ M.273102, N of Norfolk Island, 38m [28°59'S 167°58'E].
  Paratype(s) NMNZ M.273103; AM C.388215
  Comment: original reference seen.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 201 m

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [62-63, figs 12, 20m-t]

History of changes

• Condylocardia projecta Hedley, C. 1902. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March 1898. Mollusca. Part 1. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 285-324 [316, text fig. 57].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.13247, Off Watsons Bay, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW. [33°50'42"S, 151°16'40.8"E]
  Comment: Pre 1902. Coll. Australian Museum Party.

Generic Combinations

• Condylocuna projecta (Hedley, 1902). —
  Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Algal substrate, continental shelf, continental shelf, intertidal, marine, mud-silt, rocks, sand, shallow subtidal, shelly bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 183 m

General References

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [170]

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [40]

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [57-60, figs 20a-l, 21]

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 [231]

History of changes

• Cunanax Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272].

  Type species:

   Cuna pisum Hedley, 1908 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [37]

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [66]

History of changes

• Cuna compressa Hedley, C. & May, W.L. 1908. Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 108-125, pls 22-25 [124, pl. 24, figs 39-32].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.29080, off Cape Pillar, Tasmania [43°13'1.2"S, 148°4'58.8"E].

Generic Combinations

• Condylocardia compressa (Hedley & May, 1908). —
  Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [359]
• Volupicuna compressa (Hedley & May, 1908). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [176, fig. 516]
• Cunanax compressa (Hedley & May, 1908). —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

Biogenic soft substrates.

General References

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [176]

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [69-70, figs 25a-g, 27]

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [359]

History of changes

• Condylocardia crassidentata Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [236, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10110, Beachport, South Australia, 40 fathoms [73 m].

Generic Combinations

• Cunanax crassidentata (Cotton, 1930) [70-72, figs 26a-g, 27]. —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [70-72, figs 26a-g, 27]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

58-183 m

General References

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] [204]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [192]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [168]

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [70-72, figs 26a-g, 27]

History of changes

• Cuna pisum Hedley, C. 1908. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part 10. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 456–489 [476, pl. 9, figs 26, 27].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.29114, Off Green Point, Watsons Bay, Sydney Harbour, NSW. [33°50'31.2"S, 151°16'30"E]
  Comment: 1873. Coll. J. Brazier. Pres. C. Hedley, 1908.
• Condylocuna moringa Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [40, figs 18, 18a].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.90555, off North Head, Port Jackson, NSW. [33°49'58.8"S, 151°18'E].

Generic Combinations

• Cunanax pisum (Hedley, 1908). —
  Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [37, figs 8-8b]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Fraser Island, Queensland to Ulladulla, NSW (Middelfart, 2002).

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, continental shelf, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Feeds on bryozoans.

General References

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 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [170] (p. 170, fig. 483 as Condyocuna moringa, fig. 487 as Cunanax pisum)

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [66]

History of changes

• Carditella subradiata Tate, R. 1889. Descriptions of some new species of marine Mollusca from South Australia and Victoria. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 60-66, pl. 11 [Date published April] [62, pl. 11, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.12919, Shell sand, Royston Head, South Australia.
• Condylocardia porrecta Hedley, C. 1906. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31(3): 453-479, pls 36-37 [475, pl. 38, fig. 24].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.19659, dredged off Masthead Island, Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland [23°31'58.8"S, 151°45'E]
  Comment: 31-37 m.
• Radiocondyla ampla Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [42, fig. 22].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.90560, Off Long Reef, Collaroy, Sydney, NSW. [33°45'S, 151°19'1.2"E].
• Radiocondyla rotunda Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [42, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.90561, Off Crookhaven, NSW [34°55'1.2"S, 150°54'E]
  Comment: 55-64 m. Pre 1948. C.F. Laseron Coll.

Generic Combinations

• Radioconcyla porrecta (Hedley, 1906). —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [73]
• Condylocardia subradiata (Tate, 1889). —
  Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [358, pl. 12, figs. 25-28]
• Radiocondyla subradiata (Tate, 1889). —
  Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [321]
• Cunanax subradiata (Tate, 1889).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Radiocondyla porrecta auct. (Hedley, 1906). —
  Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [321]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, coral, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

2-219 m

General References

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] [204]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [193]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. (p. 168, fig. 477 as Condylocardia subradiata, p. 172, fig. 493 as Radiocondyla porrecta, fig. 495 as Radiocondyla ampla, fig. 496 as Radiocondyla rotunda)

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [72-77, figs 28a-n, 29]

History of changes

• Isodontocardia Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [77].

  Type species:

   Isodontocardia microcardia Middelfart, 2002 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also in Papua New Guinea

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [77]

History of changes

• Isodontocardia microcardia Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [78].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.388188, Torres Strait, off Murray Is. [9°54'32.4"S, 144°2'38.4"E].
  Paratype(s) AM C.379251, Torres Strait, off Murray Is. [9°56'S 144°4'E]; AM C.379259, Torres Strait, off Murray Is. [9°56'S 144°4'E]; NTM P.14471, Torres Strait, off Murray Is. [9°56'S 144°4'E]
  Comment: original reference seen.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also in Papua New Guinea

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 65 m

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [78-79, figs 19, 30a-h]

History of changes

General References

Bieler, R., Carter, J.G. & Coan, E.V. 2010. Classiication of Bivalve Families. pp. 113-133 in Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families; with a classiication of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184 [126]

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. [258, 660-662]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [168] (as part of Condylocardiidae)

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124

History of changes

• Crassacuna Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [43].

  Type species:

   Cuna praecalva Hedley, 1909 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Gulf of Thailand, Torres Strait

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [43-44]

History of changes

• Crassacuna crassisculpta Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [47, figs 20a-h, 21, table 12].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.407759, Port Darwin, Northern Territory [12°28'1.2"S, 130°49'58.8"E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

23-124 m

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [47, figs 20a-h, 21, table 12]

History of changes

• Cuna praeclava Hedley, C. 1909. Mollusca from the Hope Islands, north Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34(1): 420–466, pls 36–44 [424, pl. 36, figs 5-8].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.27632, Cairns Reef lagoon and between Cairns Reef and Hope Island, Great Barrier Reef, Qld. [15°42'S, 145°30'E]; AM C.170691, Cairns Reef lagoon and between Cairns Reef and Hope Island, Great Barrier Reef, Qld. [15°42'S, 145°30'E]
  Comment: 9-18 m. 2-6 Aug. 1906. Coll. and pres. C. Hedley.
• Cuna capillacea Hedley, C. 1909. Mollusca from the Hope Islands, north Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34(1): 420–466, pls 36–44 [425, pl. 36, figs 9-10].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.27592, Cairns Reef lagoon and between Cairns Reef and Hope Island, Great Barrier Reef, Qld. [15°42'S, 142°30'E]
  Comment: 9-18m. 2-6 Aug. 1906. "Lotus" Coll. Pres. C. Hedley.

Generic Combinations

• Micromeris (Mesocuna) capillacea (Hedley, 1909). —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [44]
• Micromeris (Mesocuna) praecalva (Hedley, 1909). —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [44]
• Crassacuna praecalva (Hedley, 1909).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Micromeris (Mesocuna) praeclava auct. (Hedley, 1909). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [172, fig. 491]
• Micromeris (Mesocuna) capillacea auct. (Hedley, 1909). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [172, fig. 490]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental shelf, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 115 m.

General References

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [172]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [44, 46]

History of changes

• Carditella pusilla Lynge, H. 1909. Marine Lamellibranchiata. The Danish Expedition to Siam 1899-1900. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes. Selskabs Skrifter. Kjøbenhavn 7(5): 1-299 [164].

  Type data:

   Holotype Koh Kram, Thailand.

Generic Combinations

• Crassacuna pusilla (Lynge, 1909).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Thailand, Indo-Malayisa, Indo-China.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 9 m in the Torres Strait

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [50]

History of changes

• Cuna Hedley, C. 1902. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March 1898. Mollusca. Part 1. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 285-324 [314].

  Type species:

   Cuna concentrica Hedley, 1902 by original designation.
• Mesocuna Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [36].

  Type species:

   Mesocuna saza Laseron, 1953 by original designation.
• Particondyla Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [42].

  Type species:

   Particondyla cuneata Laseron, 1953 by original designation.
• Volupicuna Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272].

  Type species:

   Carditella delta Tate & May, 1900 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and Australia

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

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] [179]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [169]

Lamy, E. 1917. Révision des Crassatellidae vivants du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Journal de Conchyliologie 62(4): 197-270 [251] (hinge teeth described in detail)

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [33]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [316]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [10-12]

History of changes

• Cuna concentrica Hedley, C. 1902. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March 1898. Mollusca. Part 1. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 285-324 [315, fig. 55].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.13268, 5-8 miles off Port Kembla, mud & pebbles, 137-115 m; 18 March 1898 [34°30'21.6"S, 151°0'54"E].
• Cuna littoralis Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [34, figs 2, 2a, 2b].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.90551, Ocean Beach, Manly, Sydney, NSW [33°47'60"S, 151°16'58.8"E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 174 m.

General References

Chapman, F. & Gabriel, C.J. 1914. Descriptions of New and Rare fossils obtained by Deep Boring in the Mallee. ii. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria XXVI: 301-330, 5 pl. [308] (fossil deposits of this species)

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 [16] (as Cuna concentrica and Cuna littoralis)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [174] (fig. 501 as Cuna concentrica and fig. 503 as Cuna littoralis)

Lamy, E. 1917. Révision des Crassatellidae vivants du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Journal de Conchyliologie 62(4): 197-270 [255]

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [34]

May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. [Date published 31 July 1923] [pl. VI, 14]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [12-17, figs 1, 2a-m, 3, 4, table 1]

History of changes

• Particondyla cuneata Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [42, figs 20, 20a, 20b].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.90562, Off Long Reef, Collaroy, Sydney, NSW. [33°45'S, 151°19'1.2"E]
  Comment: 26 m. Pre 1948. Dredged. C.F. Laseron Coll.

Generic Combinations

• Cuna cuneata (Laseron, 1953).

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 26 m

General References

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 [18]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [172, fig. 492]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [17-19m figs 5a-g, 6, table 2]

History of changes

• Carditella delta Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [102].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.8180, Derwent Estuary, Tasmania [42°55‘1.2"S, 147°23‘31.2"E]; TM 7510/E169, Derwent Estuary, Tasmania.
• Volupicuna novacambrica Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [35, figs 4, 4a].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.90552, Western Channel, off Sow & Pigs Reef, Sydney Habour [35°50'16.8"S, 151°16'4.8"E]
  Comment: 11-16 m. Pre. 1948.

Generic Combinations

• Cuna (Volupicuna) delta (Tate & May, 1900). —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [20]
• Cuna delta (Tate & May, 1900). —
  Hedley, C. 1902. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March 1898. Mollusca. Part 1. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 285-324 [316]
• Volupicuna delta (Tate & May, 1900). —
  Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Clay, continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

4-570 m

General References

Hedley, C. 1901. Some new or unfigured Australian shells. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 22-27 [23]

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 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [176] (fig. 513 as Volupicuna delta and fig. 515 as Volupicuna novacambrica)

Lamy, E. 1917. Révision des Crassatellidae vivants du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Journal de Conchyliologie 62(4): 197-270 [254]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [20-25, figs 7a-j, 8, table 3]

Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 [pl. XXVII, figs 100, 101]

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [356]

History of changes

• Cuna deltoides Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [25-27, figs 6, 9a-h, table 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM S10808, off Albany [35°0.2'S, 118°8.1'E]
  Comment: fine sand, 30 m.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

30-81 m

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [25-27, figs 6, 9a-h, table 4]

History of changes

• Cuna libbyae Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [27-29, figs 6, 10a-g, table 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.406268, off Sydney, New South Wales [34°4'12"S, 151°37'12"E]
  Comment: sandy mud and fine shell, 384 m.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand, shelly bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

115-1463 m

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [27-29, figs 6, 10a-g, table 5]

History of changes

• Cuna mendica Dell, R.K. 1952. A deep water Molluscan fauna from the Tasman Sea. Dominion Museum Records in Zoology 10: 99-107 [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype DM M.5553 a right valve, Lord Howe Rise, Tasman Sea, 563 m [38.3°S,169.6°E].
  Paratype(s) DM M.5554, Lord Howe Rise, Tasman Sea, 563 m [38.3°S,169.6°E].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Tasman Sea, outside Australian territorial waters

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.

History of changes

• Cuna microconcentrica Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [29-31, figs 4, 11a-h, table 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM S10809, off Esperance, WA, fine sand [34°7.4'S, 121°12.7'E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

One lot of shells from 81 m

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [29-31, figs 4, 11a-h, table 6]

History of changes

• Cuna navicula Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [31-34, figs 12a-m, 13, table 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM S10810, Great Australian Bight, 75 m [33°5'S, 128°40'E].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

58-128 m

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [31-34, figs 12a-m, 13, table 7]

History of changes

• Cuna ramus Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [35-37, figs 4, 14a-g, table 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.407757, off Maryborough, Queensland, 64 m [25°46'58.8"S, 153°33'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

31-201 m

General References

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [35-37, figs 4, 14a-g, table 8]

History of changes

• Mesocuna saza Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [36, figs 7, 7a].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.90554, Off Long Reef, Collaroy, Sydney, NSW. [33°45'S, 151°19'1.2"E]
  Comment: 26 m. Pre 1948. C.F. Laseron Coll.

Generic Combinations

• Cuna (Mesocuna) saza (Laseron, 1953). —
  Noonan, P. 1986. Bass Strait bivalves of the Cuna group. Australian Shell News 53: 4-6 [4, fig. 12]
• Micromeris (Mesocuna) saza (Laseron, 1953). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [170, fig. 488]
• Cuna saza (Laseron, 1953).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

4-27 m

General References

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 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [170]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [37-40, figs 15a-j, 16, table 9]

History of changes

• Warrana vitrea Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [44, figs 24, 24a].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.407758, Narrabean Beach, Sydney, New South Wales [33°42'S, 151°18'E].