Species Diplodonta (Diplodonta) subrotunda (Cotton, 1930)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cuna subrotunda Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [235].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10111, Spencer Gulf, SA.
• Diplodonta gurjanova Zorina, I.P. 1978. New species of bivalve molluscs (Bivalvia) of the Gulf of Tonkin (South China Sea). Trudy-Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 61: 193-203 [199].

Generic Combinations

• Diplodonta subrotunda (Cotton, 1930) [Middelfart (2002) moved this species into genus Diplodonta, and in so doing, created a homonym as the name is preoccupied - Diplodonta subrotunda Issell, 1869.]. —
  Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [113]
• Diplodonta (Diplodonta) subrotunda (Cotton, 1930).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

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] [180]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [170]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [174, fig. 502] (as Cuna subrotunda Cotton, 1930)

Middelfart, P. 2002. Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Zootaxa 112: 1-124 [113]

History of changes