Genus Lasaea Brown, 1827

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lasaea Brown, T. 1827. Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. W.H. Lizars, Engraver, and D. Lizars, Bookseller, Edinburgh; and S. Highley, Bookseller, London. [pp. i-v systematic index; unpaginated; 52 plates] [pl. 20, figs 18,19, ii of systematic index].

  Type species:

   Cardium rubrum Montagu, 1803 by monotypy.
• Cycladina Cantraine, 1835 [Bulletin de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Bruxelles, 2: 399].

  Type species:

   Cycladina adansonii Cantraine, 1835 by monotypy.
• Anapa Gray, 1842.
• Poronia Récluz, 1843 [Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuviérienne, 6: 166].

  Type species:

   Poronia adansoniana Récluz, 1843 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Aartsen, J.J. van 1996. Galeommatacea & Cyamiacea. Part II. La Conchiglia 281: 27-53 [47]

Altnöder, A. & G. Haszprunar 2008. Larval morphology of the brooding clam Lasaea adansonii (Gmelin, 1791) (Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Galeommatoidea). Journal of Morphology 269(6): 762-774

Dall, W.H. 1900. Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida with special Reference to the Silex Beds of Tampa and the Pliocene Beds of the Caloosahatchie River including in many cases complete revision of the Generic Groups Treatted of and their American Tertiary Species. Part 5 - Teleodesmacea: Solen to Diplodonta. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia 3(5): 949-1218, pls 36-47 [1163]

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 [19]

Keen, A.M. 1938. New pelecypod species of the genus Lasaea and Crassinella. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 23: 18-32, pl. 2 [19-21]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [156]

McGrath, D. & D. O'Foighil 1986. Population dynamics and reproduction of hermaphroditic Lasaea rubra. Ophelia 25: 209-219

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] [N520]

O'Foighil, D. & M.J. Smith 1995. Evolution of asexuality in the cosmopolitan marine clam Lasaea. Evolution 49: 140-150

O'Foighil, D. & Thirot-Quiévreux, C. 1999. Sympatric Australian Lasaea species (Mollusca: Bivalvia) differ in their ploidy levels, reproductive modes and developmental modes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 127(4): 477-494

Oldfield, E. 1955. Observations on the anatomy and mode of life of Lasaea rubra (Montagu) and Turtonia minuta (Fabricius). Journal of Molluscan Studies 31(5-6): 226-249

Ponder, W.F. 1971. Some New Zealand and subantarctic bivalves of the Cyamiacea and Leptonacea with descriptions of new taxa. Records of the Dominion Museum 7(13): 119-141 [133-134]

Taylor, D.J. & D. O'Foighil 2000. Transglobal comparisons of nuclear and mitochondrial genetic structure in a marine polyploid clam (Lasaea, Lasaeidae). Heredity 84: 321-330

Taylor, J.D., Williams, S.T., Glover, E.A. & Dyal, P. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes. Zoologica Scripta 36(6): 587-606 (included in analysis)

Valentich-Scott, P. 2003. A taxonomic, distributional and bibliographic checklist on Hong Kong marine bivalve molluscs and research published on them from 1971-2000. pp. 259-310 in Morton, B. (ed). Perspectives on Marine Enivornmental Change in Hong Kong and Southern China, 1977-2001: Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong, October 2001 (Hong Kong Culture and Society). USA : University of Wasington Press. [281]

 

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	GALEOMMATOIDEA	05-May-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		29-Apr-2011	MODIFIED