Species Cuspidaria erma Cotton, 1931

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cuspidaria erma Cotton, B.C. 1931. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, Southern Australia, No. 2. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(3): 333-354 [Date published June 30] [347].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D10153, 90 miles west of Eucla, Western Australia, 300 fathoms.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cuspidaria (Cuspidaria) erma Cotton, 1931.
• Cuspidaria (Cuspidaria) exarata Verco, 1908 [misidentification]. —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [230, fig. 681]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 546 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] [168, fig. 162]

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)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [230, fig. 681] (as C. (C.) exarata)

Serventy, D.L. 1937. Zoological notes on a trawling cruise in the Great Australian Bight. 3 (2) Fishes. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 23(6): 69-87, fig. 1, pls 1-4 [77]

 

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)
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	PHOLADOMYIDA	16-Aug-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		20-Jul-2011	MODIFIED
		14-Jul-2011	MODIFIED