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Species Divaricella irpex (E.A. Smith, 1885)


Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From 1 m.

 

General References

Dekker, H. & Goud, J. 1994. Review of the living Indo-West-Pacific species of Divaricella sensu auct. with descriptions of two new species and a summary of the species from other regions (Part 1). Vita Marina 42(4): 115-136 [127-128]

Glover, E.A. & Taylor, J.D. 2007. Diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves on coral reefs: Lucinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of New Caledonia and Lifou. Zoosystema 29(1): 109-181 [177]

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] [82, 3 text figs; on CD]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [48, pl. 22, fig. 143]

Meyer, E., Nilkerd, B., Glover, E.A. & Taylor, J.D. 2008. Ecological importance of chemoautotrophic lucinid bivalves in a peri-mangrove community in eastern Thailand. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 18: 41-55 (included in study)

Taylor, J. 2010. Divaricella irpex (Smith, 1885). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464143 (Accessed on 2015-12-14)

Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2006. Lucinidae (Bivalvia) – the most diverse group of chemosymbiotic molluscs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(3): 421-438 (included in review)

Williams, S.T., Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of the Lucinoidea (Bivalvia): non-monophyly and separate acquisition of bacterial chemosymbiosis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 70(2): 187-202 (included in analysis)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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 31-Jul-2014 MOVED
11-Aug-2014 LUCINOIDEA 04-Apr-2014 MODIFIED Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
26-Nov-2013 MODIFIED