Subgenus Dosinia (Dosinia) Scopoli, 1777

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dosinia Scopoli, G.A. 1777. Introductio ad Historiam Naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Prague : Wolfgangus Gerle 506 pp. [399] [Dosina [Gray, 1830, in Yate, An account of New Zealand, ed. 1, Appendix: 309] is an incorrect subsequent spelling. It was treated as such by Finlay (1926) when he established Dosinula, but treated as a separately available name by Frizzell, 1936, Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 12(34): 34].

  Type species:

   Chama dosin Adanson, 1757 (= Venus concentrica Born, 1778) by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

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. [735] (also on CD)

 

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
	VENEROIDEA	12-Oct-2011	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)