Species Condylocardia rectangularis Cotton, 1930

• 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

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)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014		28-Jul-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	CRASSATELLOIDEA	15-Mar-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		09-Mar-2011	MODIFIED