History of changes

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part A) pp. xvi, 1-563. [274]

Bieler, R., Carter, J.G. & Coan, E.V. 2010. Classiication of Bivalve Families. pp. 113-133 in Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families; with a classiication of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184 [120]

Coan, E.V., Valentich Scott, P. & Bernard, F.R. 2000. Bivalve Seashells of Western North America: Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Arctic Alaska to Baja California. California : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History viii, 764 pp. [220]

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. [196]

History of changes

• Dimya Rouault, A. 1850. Descriptions des fossiles du terrain éocène des environs de Pau. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, n.s 3: 457-502, pls 1-5 [470].

  Type species:

   Dimya deshayesiana Rouault, 1850 by monotypy.
• Dimyarina Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [269].

  Type species:

   Dimya corrugata Hedley, 1902 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo- and Eastern Pacific

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part A) pp. xvi, 1-563. [274]

Habe, T. 1971. Dimyidae in Japan and its adjacent areas. The Veliger 13(4): 330-332, plate

Harris, G.F. 1897. Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). The Australasian Tertiary Mollusca. London : British Museum of Natural History Part 1 407 pp., 8 pls. [305]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [126]

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] [N382]

Tate, R. 1886. The lamellibranchs of the Older Tertiary of Australia. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 8: 96-158 [99-100]

History of changes

• Dimya corrugata 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 [308, fig. 52].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.13255 dry, 5-8 miles off Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia [35°29‘38.4‘S, 151°0‘54‘E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

To about 150 m

General References

Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M10]

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.

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 [12]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [126]

Yonge, C.M. 1975. The status of the Plicatulidae and the Dimyidae in relation to the superfamily Pectinacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Journal of Zoology, London 176(4): 545-553

History of changes