Species Talabrica bellula (A. Adams, 1854)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crassatella bellula A. Adams, 1854.
• Crassatella banksii Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii [427, pl. 37, fig. 16].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Banks's Strait, Tasmania.

Generic Combinations

• Crassatellites banksii (Adams & Angas, 1863). —
  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.6] (new combination)

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Adams, S. & Angas, G.F. 1863. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii [427]

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. [647] (suggest that this species name is synonymous with T. bellula from New Zealand and that the type locality of banksii from Banks Strait is in error. Alternative theory could be the occurence of few specimens of a generally NZ taxon in Tasmanian waters, if the taxa do in fact prove to be conspecific)

Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009. Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp.196-219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.). The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity Volume 1: Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Christchurch : Canterbury University Press 566 pp.

Trew, A. 1992. Henry and Arthur Adams's new molluscan names. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales 63 pp. [17]

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