Species Parvamussium thetidis (Hedley, 1902)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amusium thetidis Hedley, C. 1902. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March 1898. Mollusca. Part 1. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 285-324 [304, fig. 49].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.13210 dry, 5-8 miles off Port Kembla, NSW, Australia, 115-137 m [34°30‘21.6‘S 151°0‘54‘E].
  Paratype(s) AMS C.171634 5 v, same data as Holotype.
• Ctenamussium salacon Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [164].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.24345 dry, 27.5 mls east of Sydney Heads, New South Wales, Australia, 549 m [33°49‘58.8‘S 151°49‘1.2‘E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Parvamussium salacon (Iredale, 1929). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [16, pl. 6]
• Ctenamussium thetidis (Hedley, 1902). —
  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 [11]
• Parvamussium thetidis (Hedley, 1902). —
  Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [71]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Cairns, QLD to off Beachport, SA, and Recherche Archipelago, WA to Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD, probably continuous around Australia; east Indo-west Pacific (Indonesia, Tonga)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Southern Province (8)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

To 650 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] [102-103, fig. 88]

Dijkstra, H.H. 1995. Bathyal Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae, Pectinidae) from New Caledonia and adjacent areas. pp. 9-73 in Bouchet, P. (ed). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 14. Mémoires de Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 167: 1-654 [35, figs 99-102]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Kastoro, W.W. 1997. Mollusca Bivalvia: Pectinoidea (Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from eastern Indonesia. pp. 245-285 in Crosnier, A. & Bouchet, P. (eds). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 16. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 172: 1-667 [262, figs 83-89]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Maestrati, P. 2008. New species and new records of deep-water Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the South Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 196: 77-113 [95]

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 CD)

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 [11]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [16, pl. 6, fig. 35]

Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [70, 71]

 

Common Name References

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [299] (Thetis Saucer Scallop)

 

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)
02-Apr-2020	PECTINOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815	30-Jan-2020	MODIFIED
26-Jun-2013		26-Jun-2013	MODIFIED
		14-Jan-2011	MODIFIED