• Venatomya Iredale, T. 1930. More notes on the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 17(9): 384-407 [Date published 27 June] [403].

  Type species:

   Sphaenia elliptica Adams, A., 1851 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

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]

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] [N692]

History of changes

• Cryptomya (Venatomya) blackburnae Lamprell, K. & Stanisic, J. 1998. Myidae from Australian waters (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Molluscan Research 19(1): 1-9, fig. 4 [3, fig. 2a-e].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.304578, Port Keats, Northern Territory, , on beach after rough weather [14°05'-14°15'S, 129°35'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes

• Sphaenia elliptica Adams, A. 1851. Monograph of Sphaenia, a genus of lamellibranchiate Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 86-89, pl. 10 [88].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1907.10.28.145, Sydney, NSW.
• Cryptomya truncata Gould, A.A. 1861. Descriptions of shells collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition (continued). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 8: 14-40 [24].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, China Sea.
• Tugonia sinensis Xu, F. 1987. New species and new records of Myidae from the China coast. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica 18(5): 437-441 [438].

Generic Combinations

• Cryptomya (Venatomya) elliptica (A. Adams, 1851).
• Venatomya elliptica (A. Adams, 1851). —
  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]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 8 m

General References

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. [766]

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. [190]

Lamprell, K. & Stanisic, J. 1998. Myidae from Australian waters (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Molluscan Research 19(1): 1-9, fig. 4 [6]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [196]

History of changes