Species Eucrassatella kingicola (Lamarck, 1805)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crassatella kingicola Lamarck, J.P.B. de Monet 1805. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6: 407-415 [408].

  Type data:

   Holotype King's Island, Tasmania.
  Paratype(s) King Island, Bass Strait, Australia.
• Crassatellites ponderosus Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [191] [in OBIS cited as Unknown Crassatellites ponderosus Gmelin, 1791].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

 

Generic Combinations

• Eucrassatella kingicola (Lamarck, 1805).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Marine, sand, subtidal.

 

General References

Darragh, T.A. 1964. A preliminary revision of the living species of Eucrassatella (Pelecypoda: Crassatellidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 1(8): 3-9 [4, pl. 1, fig. 1, pl. 2, figs 7, 10]

Darragh, T.A. 1965. Revision of the species of Eucrassatella and Spissatella Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 78(1): 95-114, pl. 12-15 [99, pl. 15, figs 38-40]

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. [241, 645]

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 [16]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [58]

 

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. [303, figs 2,4] (King Island Crassatella)

 

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		28-Jul-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014		28-Jul-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	CRASSATELLOIDEA	16-Mar-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		16-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		19-Feb-2013	MODIFIED