Species Dacosta australis (Sowerby, 1829)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clavagella australis Sowerby, G.B. 1827-1829. Observations on a few of the remarkable shells collected by Mr Samuel Stuchbury on the coast of some of the Islands of the Australasian and Polynesian groups. In, Stutchury Catalogue. [3].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sydney Harbour, N.S.W.

 

Generic Combinations

• Clavagella (Dacosta) australis australis (Sowerby, 1829). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [222]
• Dacosta australis (Sowerby, 1829). —
  Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [401]
• Dacosta australis (Sowerby, 1829).

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Clavagella (Dacosta) australis Sowerby, 1829.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Embedded, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Anterior end attached to and shallowly embedded in rock.

 

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. [301]

Gofas, S. 2011. Dacosta australis (Sowerby, 1829). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=573732 (Accessed on 2017-05-30)

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. [776] (also on CD)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [401, fig. 471]

Morton, B. 2007. Evolution of the watering pot shells (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Clavagellidae and Penicillidae). Records of the Australian Museum 24(1): 19-64

Morton, B.S. 1984. The biology and functional morphology of Clavagella australis (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata). Journal of Zoology, London 202: 489-511

Smith, B.J. 1971. A revision of the family Clavagellidae (Pelecypoda, Mollusca) from Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 2: 135-161 [143, pl. 10, figs 9-10]

Smith, B.J. 1976. Revision of the Recent species of the family Clavagellidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 3: 187-208 [193, fig. 11]

 

Common Name References

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [401] (as Dacosta australis) (Southern Tube Shell)

 

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	22-Aug-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		22-Aug-2011	MOVED
11-Aug-2014		22-Aug-2011	MOVED
11-Aug-2014		04-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		14-Jul-2011	MODIFIED