Species Lasaea australis (Lamarck, 1818)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyclas australis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [560].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Tasmania, Australia.
• Poronia scalaris Philippi, A.R. 1847. Testaceorum novorum centuria. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1847: 71-77, 84-96, 113-127 [72].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Western Australia.
• Poronia parreyssii Philippi, A.R. 1847. Testaceorum novorum centuria. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1847: 71-77, 84-96, 113-127 [73].
• Poronia rugosa Recluz, M.C. 1853. Description de coquilles nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 4: 49-54 [50-51, pl. 2, figs 4-5].

 

Generic Combinations

• Lasaea australis (Lamarck, 1818). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [156]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocky shore, tide pools.

Extra Ecological Information

Byssally attached in coraline algae, mussel byssus or to rocks; within Galiolaria worm tubes.

 

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [315, fig. 17]

Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1917. Additions to and alterations in the Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 30(1): 21–31 [29]

Hedley, C. 1915. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 695–755, pls 77–85 [Date published 26 Feb.] [702]

Huber, M. 2015. Compendium of Bivalves 2. A full-color guide to the remaining seven families. A systematic listing of 8,500 bivalve species and 10,500 synonyms. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 907 pp, 1 CD-ROM. [Date published May: Markus Huber, Annioe Langleit &​ Kurt Kreipl: TELLINIDAE; Markus Huber: all other parts] [140-141, 501-502, 5 text figs; 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 [19]

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

Laseron, C. 1956. A Revision of the New South Wales Leptonidae. Mollusca: Pelecypoda. Records of the Australian Museum 24(2): 7-21, text-figs 1-27 [15, figs 19, 19a, b]

O'Foighil, D. 1988. Random mating and planktotrophic larval development in Lasaea australis Lamarck 1818. Veliger 31: 205-214

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

Phillips, D.A.B., Handreck, C., Bock, P.E., Burn, R., Smith, B.J. & Staples, D.A. (eds) 1984. Coastal Invertebrates of Victoria: an atlas of selected species. Melbourne : Marine Research Group of Victoria & Museum of Victoria 168 pp. [87]

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 [135]

Roberts, D. 1984. A comparative study of Lasaea australis, Vulsella spongiarum, Pinna bicolor and Donacilla cuneata from Princess Royal Harbour, Western Australia. Journal of Molluscan Studies 50(3): 129-136

Tong L.K. 1990. The population ecology of the intertidal bivalve Lasaea australis. University of Sydney, Sydney.

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [315] (Australian Lasaea)

 

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	12-Nov-2013	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		05-May-2011	MODIFIED