Species Cuna delta (Tate & May, 1900)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Carditella delta Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [102].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.8180, Derwent Estuary, Tasmania [42°55‘1.2"S, 147°23‘31.2"E]; TM 7510/E169, Derwent Estuary, Tasmania.
• Volupicuna novacambrica Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [35, figs 4, 4a].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.90552, Western Channel, off Sow & Pigs Reef, Sydney Habour [35°50'16.8"S, 151°16'4.8"E]
  Comment: 11-16 m. Pre. 1948.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cuna (Volupicuna) delta (Tate & May, 1900). —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [20]
• Cuna delta (Tate & May, 1900). —
  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 [316]
• Volupicuna delta (Tate & May, 1900). —
  Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [272]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Clay, continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

4-570 m

 

General References

Hedley, C. 1901. Some new or unfigured Australian shells. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 22-27 [23]

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 [17]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [176] (fig. 513 as Volupicuna delta and fig. 515 as Volupicuna novacambrica)

Lamy, E. 1917. Révision des Crassatellidae vivants du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Journal de Conchyliologie 62(4): 197-270 [254]

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [20-25, figs 7a-j, 8, table 3]

Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 [pl. XXVII, figs 100, 101]

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [356]

 

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)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	16-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	ABRS
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