Species Rhomboidella rhyllensis (Gatliff & Gabriel, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Modiolaria rhyllensis Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1912. On some new species of Victorian marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 25(1): 167-168, pl. 9 [p.167, pl.9, f.9,10].
• Exosiperna concava 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] [340, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10135, Backstairs Passage, 110 fathoms.

 

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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Rhomboidella rhyllensis (Gatliff & Gabriel, 1912).

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Dacrydium (Quendreda) radians Sutor, 1908 [misidentification]. —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [84] (according to Huber (2010) now known as Rhomboidella radians (Suter, 1908), restricted to New Zealand)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Beu, A.G. 2004. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265 [148]

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] [130, fig. 118] (as E. concava)

Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1916. Additions to the alterations in the Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 29(1): 106-113 [113]

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.

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [84, 186] (as Dacrydium (Quendrella) radians Suter, 1908; and, fig. 186 is a reproduction of Exosiperna concava from Cotton (1938))

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [283]

Ockelmann, K.W. 1983. Descriptions of mytilid species and definition of the Dacrydiinae n. subfam. (Mytilidae - Bivalvia). Ophelia 22: 81-123 (discussion of the differences between the New Zealand radians and the Australian rhyllensis)

 

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)
03-Sep-2012		03-Sep-2012	MOVED
03-Sep-2012		03-Sep-2012	MOVED
22-Sep-2010		22-Sep-2010	MOVED
27-May-2013		08-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		11-Aug-2010	MODIFIED