• Epicodakia Iredale, T. 1930. More notes on the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 17(9): 384-407 [Date published 27 June] [390].

  Type species:

   Epicodakia consettiana Iredale, 1930 (= Lucina minima Tenison-Woods, 1876) by original designation.
• Talocodakia Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [273].

  Type species:

   Epicodakia kennethi Iredale, 1930 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, Australia and New Zealand

IMCRA

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

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 [136]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 20]

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] [N496]

History of changes

• Lucina (Codakia) congenita 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 [182, pl. 13, figs 7-7a].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, station 185B, east of Cape York, North Australia, 155 fathoms, coral sand.

Generic Combinations

• Epicodakia congenita (Smith, 1885).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malaysia.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, marine, sand.

General References

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] [nom. dub.] (on CD)

History of changes

• Epicodakia consettiana Iredale, T. 1930. More notes on the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 17(9): 384-407 [Date published 27 June] [391] [replacement name; replacement name for Lucina minima Tenison-Woods, 1876].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Badger Island, Tasmania, Australia.
• Lucina minima Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [162] [junior homonym; not Lucina minima Roemer, 1836].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Tasmania.
• Epicodakia kennethi Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [273, pl. 20, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60608, Sydney, Narrabeen Beach, New South Wales, Australia [33°42'S, 151°18'E].

Generic Combinations

• Ctena (Talocodakia) kennethi (Iredale, 1936). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 20, fig. 125]
• Talocodakia kennethi (Iredale, 1936). —
  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 [18]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NSW from Australian Museum reference collection records

Australian Endemic.

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, sublittoral.

General References

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 [137-138, figs 17; 18A] (as Epicodakia consettiana Iredale, 1930)

Grove, S. 2010. A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania. http://www.molluscsoftasmania.net (distribution around Tasmania)

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] [90, 3 text figs; on CD]

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 [18]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [44] (as E. kennethi)

History of changes

• Epicodakia nodulosa 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 [138-140, figs 18C; 19].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHNP (Col: stn 1304, 12-15 m), Chenal de l’Infernet, Koumac, New Caledonia [20°38.6’S, 164°13.2’E].
  Paratype(s) MNHNP, Atoll de Surprise [18°22’S, 163°09’E]; BMNH 20050572, Baie du Santal, Lifou, Loyalty Islands [20°52.4’S, 167°08.5’E].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• "Lucina" reevei Desheyes, 1863 [misidentification]. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 20, fig. 124]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Distribution include Great Barrier Reef, Irian Jaya, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 30 m

General References

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] (on CD)

Taylor, J. 2010. Epicodakia nodulosa Glover & Taylor, 2007. In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457451 (Accessed on 2016-01-05)

History of changes

• Lucina perobliqua Tate, R. 1892. Descriptions of some new species of marine Mollusca from Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 15(2): 125-132 [128, pl. 1, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.12959, southern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, bech.

Generic Combinations

• Codakia (Codakia) perobliqua (Tate, 1892). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 20]
• Codakia perobliqua (Tate, 1892).
• Epicodakia perobliqua (Tate, 1892).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

TAS from Australian Museum reference collection

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

To 37 m.

General References

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] [220, fig. 228]

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 [138] (note that this species is a possible synonym of Epicodakia consettiana Iredale, 1930)

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] [91-92, 4 text figs; on CD]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [44]

History of changes

• Cardita sweeti Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca. Part 2. Pelecypoda and Brachiopoda. The atoll of Funafuti, Ellice Group: its zoology, botany, ethnology, and general structure based on collections made by Mr Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum. Part 8. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3: 491-510 [495, fig. 5].
• Ctena transversa Dall, W.H., Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H.A. 1938. A manual of the recent and fossil marine Pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Island. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 153: 3-233, pls 1-57 [Date published July 25].

Generic Combinations

• Epicodakia sweeti (Hedley, 1899). —
  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 [140]
• Vimentum sweeti (Hedley, 1899).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Distribution from Amirante Islands (Indian Ocean), Bali, Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii, Marquesas

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Coral sand, in rubble, marine, sublittoral, subtidal, under rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

7 - 100m

General References

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 [140-142, figs 18B; 20]

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] [92, text fig.; on CD]

Taylor, J. 2010. Epicodakia sweeti. In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464157 (Accessed on 2016-01-05)

History of changes