Subgenus Gari (Gari) Schumacher, 1817

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gari Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [131] [placed on the Official List by Opinion 910, 1970, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 27(1): 16].

  Type species:

   Gari vulgaris Schumacher, 1817 (Opinion 910, 1970, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 27(1): 16) by subsequent designation.
• Psammotaea Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [516] [Psammotoea is an alternative original spelling. Psammotea 9Schweigger (1820) Handbuch der Naturgeschichte der skelettlosen ungegliederten Thiere: 705) and Psammothea (Voigt (1834) Das Thierreich... von Cuvier, 3: 566) are incorrect subsequent spellings].

  Type species:

   Psammotaea donacina Children, 1823 by subsequent designation.
• Capsella Deshayes, G.P. 1855 [imprint 1854]. Descriptions of new shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 22 for 1854: 317-371 [Date published May 1855] [347] [junior homonym; of Capsella Gray, 1851, or misapplication of the latter (Deshayes did not explicitly establish it as new). Capsula (in Reeve (1857) Conchologia Iconica, 9: Capsella pl. 1) is an incorrect subsequent spelling].
• Grammatomya Dall, 1898 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, (1898): 57].

  Type species:

   Psammobia squamosa Lamarck, 1818 by monotypy.
• Milligaretta Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [282].

  Type species:

   Milligaretta venta Iredale, 1936 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (in part)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [248]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [108, pl. 52]

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] [N631]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	TELLINOIDEA	30-Jun-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		23-Jun-2011	MODIFIED