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Species Dosinia (Asa) tumida (Gray, 1838)


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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, subtidal.

 

General References

Fischer-Piette, E. 1968. Contribution a la connaissance des Veneridae du Mozambique. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 40(4): 784-796 [791]

Fischer-Piette, E. 1973. Sur des Veneridae de l'Ocean Indien Occidental (Mollusca, Pelecypoda). Téthys 5(2-3): 267-316 [292]

Fischer-Piette, E. 1976. Les Veneridae indeterminees das collections de Calcutta. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 70: 235-257 [246]

Fischer-Piette, E. & Métivier, B. 1971. Les Dosinia (Moll., Biv.) indeterminees de Calcutta. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 6 42(2nd series): 1282-1287 [1284]

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [507]

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. [413, 737] (also on CD)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [146, pl. 71, fig. 560]

Oliver, P.G. 1995. Bivalvia. pp. 194-281 in Dance, S.P. (ed). Seashells of Eastern Arabia. Dubai, UAE : Motivate Publishing. [272]

Smith, E.A. 1891. On a collection of marine shells from Aden, with some remarks upon the relationship of the Molluscan fauna of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891(3): 390–436 [421-22]

 

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 VENEROIDEA 26-Oct-2011 MOVED Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014 26-Oct-2011 MODIFIED
25-Jul-2011 MODIFIED