Genus Anomia Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anomia Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [700].

  Type species:

   Anomia ephippium Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Schmidt, F.C. 1818. Versuch über die beste Einrichtung zur Aufstellung, Behandlung und Aufbewahrung der verschiedenen Naturkörper und Gegenstände der Kunst, vorzüglich der Conchylien-Sammlungen, nebst kurzer, Beurtheilung der conchyliologischen Systeme und Schriften und einer tabellarischen Zusammenstellung und Vergleichung der sechs besten und neuesten conchyliologischen Systeme, welchen ein Verzeichniss der am meisten bekannten Conchylien angehängt ist, wie solche nach dem Lamakischen System geordnet werden Können. Gotha. 8 + 252 pp. [71].
• Echion Poli, G.S. 1791. Testacea utriusque Siciliae, eorumque historie et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata. Parma : Bodoni Vol. 1 pp. i-x (Preface), 1-90 (Introduction), 1-50 (Testaceae Multivalvia), 1-74 (Testaceae Bivalvia), I-lXXIII (Index), 18 pls. [34].

  Type species:

   Anomia caepa Linné, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Keen, A. M. 1959. Some type designations in Anomiacea. Minuttes of the Conchological Club Southern California 191. p. 22 [22].
• Echionoderma Poli, G.S. 1795. Testacea utriusque Siciliae Eorumque Historia et Anatome Tabulis Aeneis Illustrata. Vol. 2. Parma, Italy. pp. 1-264, index i-lxxvi, pls 19-38 [255, 261] [objective synonym].

  Type species:

   Anomia ephippium Linné, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Keen, A. M. 1959. Some type designations in Anomiacea. Minuttes of the Conchological Club Southern California 191. p. 22 [22].
• Fenestella Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [193] [objective synonym; suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy. ICZN Oppinion 622].
• Operculella Monterosato, M. di 1915. Ostreae ed Anomiae del Mediterraneo. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 3 7 (47): 7-16, pl. I-IV [15] [nomen nudum].

  Type species:

   Operculella operculata Monterosato, 1915 by monotypy.

 

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.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

ANOMIIDAE: Cepa "Gray, 1847" [Huber lists Cepa as a synonym of Anomia citing Gray in Appendix 10 of "Narrative ... of HMS Fly ..". However, there is no such genus in that Appendix 10, but there is a genus "Leda". It is suggested that Huber's Cepa is a misreading of a handwritten Leda] — Gray, J.E. 1847. Appendix 10. Descriptions of some new species of marine shells. pp. 355-362 in Jukes, J.B. (ed). Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N. in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842-1846: together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2.; 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. [On the CD]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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. [280-281]

Beu, A.G. 1967. Notes on Australasian Anomiidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 9: 225-243 [226-227]

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. [126]

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] [N383]

Yonge, C.M. 1977. Form and evolution in the Anomiacea (Mollusca: Bilvalvia) - Pododesmus, Anomia, Patro, Enigmonia (Anomiidae): Placunanomia, Placuna (Placunidae Fam. Nov). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 276: 950

 

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)
23-Apr-2018	BIVALVIA	23-Apr-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MODIFIED	ABRS
14-Jun-2013		22-Aug-2023	MODIFIED
25-Nov-2010		25-Nov-2010	MOVED
		24-Nov-2010	MODIFIED