Species Corbula smithiana Brazier, 1879

Compiler and date details

June 2017 - Burghardt, I.

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Corbula smithiana Brazier, J. 1879. Synonymy of and remarks upon Port Jackson, New Caledonian and other shells, with their distribution. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 388-392 [388] [new name for Corbula venusta Angas, 1871, not Gould, 1862].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1871.7.5.25, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW.
Corbula venusta Angas, G.F. 1871. Descriptions of thirty-four new species of shells from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 13–20 [12 June 1871] [20, pl. 1, fig. 29] [junior homonym of Corbula venusta Gould, 1862].
Type data:
Status unknown, Sow and Pigs Reef, New South Wales.
Corbula coxi Pilsbry, 1897.
Corbula flindersi Cotton, 1930.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

Corbula (Notocorbula) smithiana Brazier, 1879. —
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 [26]
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [192]
Corbula (Caryocorbula) smithiana Brazier, 1879.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, mud-silt, sand.

General References

Angas, G.F. 1871. Description of thirty-four new species of shells from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13-21

Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M31]

Huber, M. 2010. Corbula smithiana Brazier, 1880. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505837 (Accessed on 2017-06-08)

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. [464]

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 [26]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [192]

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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	MYIDA	30-Jul-2014	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014	MYIDA	23-Mar-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		10-Mar-2011	MODIFIED