• Electroma Stoliczka, F. 1870-1871. The Pelecypoda, with a review of all known genera of this class, fossil and recent. in, Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the geological survey of India. Vol. 3. Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. London : Trübner & Co. [Pts 1-4, pp. 1-222, pls I-XII, issed Sept. 1st 1870; Pts 5-8, pp. 223-409, pls XIII-XXVIII, issed Mar. 1st 1871; Pts 9-13, pp. 409-537, pls XXIX-L, issed Aug. 1st 1871] [391].

  Type species:

   Avicula smaragdina Reeve, 1857 by monotypy.
• Pterelectroma Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [332].

  Type species:

   Avicula zebra Reeve, 1857 by original designation.

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.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), 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), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part A) pp. xvi, 1-563. [262]

Bouchet, P. & Gofas, S. 2017. Electroma Stoliczka, 1871. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234143 (Accessed on 2017-06-01)

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2010. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families; with a classiication of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184

Coan, E.V. & Valentich-Scott, P. 2012. Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2 vols. pp.1258.

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] [324]

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.

Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [332]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [100]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [296]

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N304]

Tëmkin, I. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(342): 1-28

Tsubaki, R., Kameda, Y. & Kato, M. 2011. Pattern and process of diversification in an ecologically diverse epifaunal bivalve group Pterioidea (Pteriomorphia, Bivalvia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 97-104 (as Electroma zebra type of Pterelectroma)

History of changes

• Mytilus alacorvi Dillwyn, L.W. 1817. A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London : John and Arthur Arch 2 volumes 1092 + 29 pp. [322].
• Avicula costellata Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [149].
• Avicula linguatula Deshayes, G.P. 1830. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 2, Part 1 i-vii, 256 pp. [104].
• Meleagrina ovata Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 3 366 pp. [459, t. 97, fig. 12, 13].
• Meleagrina tongana Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 3 366 pp. [460, t. 77, fig. 14, 15].
• Avicula livida Deshayes, G.P. 1836. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 7 735 pp. [103].
• Avicula atropurpurea Dunker, W. 1852. Aviculacea nova. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 9: 73-80 [76] [Huber (2010) lists this as a probable synonym of Electroma alacorvi].
• Avicula spadicea Dunker, W. 1852. Aviculacea nova. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 9: 73-80 [73].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Margaritifera semiaurita Mörch, O.A.L. 1853. Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra et Gadea, Comes de Yoldi, regis Daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis Danebrogici in prima classe et ordinis tertii eques. Fasciculus Secundus. Acephala, Annulata Cirripeda, Echinodermata. Hafniae : Ludovici Kleini Vol. 2 74 pp. + 2 unnumbered pages. [Date published April] [11].
• Avicula pulchella Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [pl. 8].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Philippines.
• Avicula smaragdina Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [pl. 12].
• Avicula rutila Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [pl. 8].
• Avicula malleoides Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [pl. 12].
• Avicula meleagridis Dunker, W. 1869. Novitates Conchologicae. Mollusca Marina. Beschreibung und Abbildung neuer oder wenig gekannter Meeres-Conchylien. Cassel : T. Fischer pp. 121-126, pls 40-42.
• Electroma tragulata Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [332].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.60341, Great Barrier Reef, 0.25 ml north of North Direction Isle, QLd [14°43‘58.8‘S 145°31‘1.2‘E].
• Electroma pygmaea Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [373].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.60342, Port Douglas, QLD [16°31‘58.8‘S 145°28‘58.8‘E].

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

• Electroma (Electroma) alacorvi (Dillwyn, 1817).
• Electroma alacorvi (Dillwyn, 1817).
• Electroma (Electroma) malleoides (Reeve, 1857).
• Electroma (Electroma) ovata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834).
• Electroma ovata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). —
  Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [170]
• Pteria pulchella (Reeve, 1857). —
  Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [190] (changed combination of synonym; non Reeve, 1857)
• Electroma smaragdina (Reeve, 1857).
• Avicula (Meleagrina) smaragdina (Reeve, 1857). —
  Smith, E.A. 1885. Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(35): 1-341, 25 pls [284]
• Avicula smaragdina (Reeve, 1857). —
  Smith, E.A. 1884. Mollusca. pp. 34–116, 487–508, 657–659, pls 4–7. In, Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis. [Part I. Collections of Melanesia, pp. 34–116; Part II. Collections from the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 487–508; explanation of plates pp. 657–659] [113]
• Electroma (Electroma) spadicea (Dunker, 1852).

Introduction

Huber (2010) gives the following additional synonyms:

Avicula cornea Dunker, 1852 - No locality
Avicula japonica Dunker, 1852 - Japan
Avicula flammata Reeve, 1857 - Philippines
Avicula electrina Reeve, 1857 - Maluku
Avicula cochenhauseni Dunker, 1872 - China

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Coral habitat; attached to coral, gorgonians, sea whips or seagrasses

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [261] (as Electroma smaragdina)

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. [100, fig. 239] (as Electroma (Electroma) alacorvi (Dillwyn, 1817); 100, fig. 240 as Electroma (Electroma) spadicea (Dunker, 1852); 100, fig.241 as Electroma (Electroma) ovata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834); 102, fig. 245 as Electroma (Electroma) malleoides (Reeve, 1857))

Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [155, pl. 20, fig. H] (as Electroma (Electroma) alacorvi (Dillwyn, 1817))

Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [883, fig. 17] (as Electroma (Electroma) ovata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [63] (as Electroma (Electroma) alacorvi (Dillwyn, 1817))

Slack-Smith, S.M. & Bryce, C.W. 2004. A survey of the benthic molluscs of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 66: 221-245 (as Electroma (Electroma) spadicea (Dunker, 1852))

Smith, E.A. 1884. Mollusca. pp. 34–116, 487–508, 657–659, pls 4–7. In, Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis. [Part I. Collections of Melanesia, pp. 34–116; Part II. Collections from the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 487–508; explanation of plates pp. 657–659] [113]

Smith, E.A. 1885. Report on the Lamellibranchiata collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(35): 1-341, 25 pls [284] (as Electroma (Electroma) ovata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

Tsubaki, R., Kameda, Y. & Kato, M. 2011. Pattern and process of diversification in an ecologically diverse epifaunal bivalve group Pterioidea (Pteriomorphia, Bivalvia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 97-104 (as Electroma (Electroma) ovata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [261] (Smaragdina Little Wing Shell)

History of changes

• Avicula papilionacea Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [149].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Habite les mers de la Nouvelle Hollande. [Inhabits the seas of Australia].
• Avicula scalpta Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [pl. 11, fig. 38].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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. [605 and CD-ROM line 4559]

Generic Combinations

• Electroma papilionacea (Lamarck, 1819).
• Electroma (Electroma) papilionacea (Lamarck, 1819).
• Pteria papilionacea (Lamarck, 1819). —
  Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 [439]
• Electroma (Electroma) scalpta (Reeve, 1857).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Electroma punctulata non Reeve, 1857 [misidentification; is Electroma papilionacea (Lamarck, 1819)]. —
  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] [76, fig. 66]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 20 m, byssally attached to sea whips and weed

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [261] (as Electroma punctulata (Reeve, 1857), which is a misidentification)

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] [76-77, fig. 66]] (as Electroma punctulata (Reeve, 1857), which is a mis-identification)

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. [100, fig. 244] (as Electroma (Electroma) papilionacea (Lamarck, 1819); 100 as Electroma (Electroma) scalpta (Reeve, 1857))

Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 [255-256]

Tëmkin, I. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(342): 1-28

History of changes

• Avicula physoides Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [149].
• Avicula zebra Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [fig. 36].
• Pteria tomlini Prashad, B. 1932. The Lamellibranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Systematic Part 2. Pelecypoda. Siboga-Expéditie Report 118(34): 1-353, pls 1-9, 1 map [94, pl. 3, figs 3, 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype Buka, or Cyrus bay, east coast of Rotti Island, staion 299, Siboga Expedition.

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

• Electroma (Pterelectroma) physoides (Lamarck, 1819).
• Electroma physoides (Lamarck, 1819).
• Pteria (Electroma) zebra (Reeve, 1857). —
  Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [16]
• Electroma zebra (Reeve, 1857). —
  Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [205]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific

IMCRA

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), 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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Sublittoral to 20m; byssally attached to whip corals, corals or marine growths; coral habitat

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [261, fig. 5]

Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [90, fig. 275]

Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 [156] (as Pinctada zebra)

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.

Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [205] (as Electroma zebra)

Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [333] (as Electroma zebra)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [10]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [102, fig. 246] (as Electroma (Pterelectroma) physoides (Lamarck, 1819))

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [110] (as Pteria zebra rejected as Tasmanian)

Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [16, pl. 1, figs 6-8] (as Pteria (Electroma) zebra)

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [63]

Prashad, B. 1932. The Lamellibranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Systematic Part 2. Pelecypoda. Siboga-Expéditie Report 118(34): 1-353, pls 1-9, 1 map [95]

Smith, E.A. 1884. Mollusca. pp. 34–116, 487–508, 657–659, pls 4–7. In, Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis. [Part I. Collections of Melanesia, pp. 34–116; Part II. Collections from the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 487–508; explanation of plates pp. 657–659] [113] (as Avicula zebra)

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [261, text fig. 5] (Little Zebra Wing Shell)

Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [90] (Zebra Little Wing Shell)

History of changes

• Avicula virens Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [150].

  Type data:

   Holotype "Habite les mers de la Nouvelle Hollande , à la côte de la terre d'Endraeth [d'Eendracht]" [Inhabits the seas of Australia and Eendracht Land].
  Comment: Eendracht Land is the region of the West Australian coast between 21 deg and 25 deg south.
• Avicula georgiana Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 3 366 pp. [457, t. 77, figs 10-11].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, King George Sound, Western Australia.
• Avicula hyalina Dunker, W. 1852. Aviculacea nova. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 9: 73-80 [75].
• Avicula punctulata Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [pl. 12, fig. 42].

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

• Electroma (Electroma) georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [100]
• Electroma punctulata (Reeve, 1857). —
  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] [76]
• Electroma virens (Lamarck, 1819).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Electroma punctulata non Reeve, 1857 [misidentification; is Electroma papilionacea Lamarck, 1819]. —
  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] [76, fig. 66]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Range from AMS collection: Port Sephens, NSW, southwards around southern Australia and Tasmania to Shark Bay, WA.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [261, text fig. 2] (as Electroma georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

Angas, G.F. 1867. On a new genus and some new species of marine Mollusca from Port Jackson, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 908-935, pl. 44 [930] (as Avicula pulchella)

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] [76] (as Electroma georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

Garrard, T.A. 1969. Amendments to Iredale and McMichael's "Reference List of the Marine Mollusca of New South Wales". Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(12): 3-17 [4] (as Electroma georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M7] (as Avicula pulchella)

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.

Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [190] (as Pteria pulchella)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [100] (as Electroma (Electroma) georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

Macpherson, J.H. 1966. Port Phillip Survey 1957–1963. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 27: 201–288 [231] (as Electroma georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [296-298, fig. 338] (as Electroma georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [9] (as Pteria pulchella)

May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. [Date published 31 July 1923] [pl. 2, fig. 15] (as Pteria pulchella)

Phillips, D.A.B., Handreck, C., Bock, P.E., Burn, R., Smith, B.J. & Staples, D.A. (eds) 1984. Coastal Invertebrates of Victoria: an atlas of selected species. Melbourne : Marine Research Group of Victoria & Museum of Victoria 168 pp. [85, text fig.] (as Electroma georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

Poore, G.C.B. 1982. Benthic communities of the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33(5): 901-915 (as Electroma georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))

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