Species Electroma papilionacea (Lamarck, 1819)

• 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

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)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	PTERIOIDEA	28-Jul-2014	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014	PTERIOIDEA	13-Sep-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		17-Nov-2010	ADDED
		17-Nov-2010	MODIFIED