Species Eucrassatella pulchra (Reeve, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crassatella pulchra Reeve, L. 1842. Monograph of Crassatella, a genus of acephalous mollusks (family Mactracea). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 10: 42-46 [43].
• Crassatella sulcata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [481] [non Lamarck 1805].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

 

Generic Combinations

• Crassatella kingicola pulchra (Reeve, 1842). —
  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] [107] (as Crassatella kingicola var. pulchra)
• Crassatellites pulchra (Reeve, 1842). —
  Shirley, J. 1913. Additions to the Marine Mollusca of Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 24: 55-56 [55] (New combination)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29)

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 [6, pl. 1, fig. 3]

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. [242, 645]

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. [304, pl. 30, fig. 18] (Beautiful 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