Species Fluviolanatus subtortus (Dunker, 1857)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Modiolarca (Volsella) subtorta Dunker, W. 1857. Mytilacea nova collectionis Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 24(1856): 358-366 [May 8 1857] [365].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, North Australia.
• Fluviolanatus amarus Laseron, C. 1956. New South Wales Mussels - a taxonomic review of the family Mytilidae from the Peronian Zoogeographical Province. The Australian Zoologist 12(3): 263-283, figs 1-53 [274, figs 46, 49].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, Dee why Lagoon ear Sydney, New South Wales.

 

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

• Fluviolanatus subtortus (Dunker, 1857).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Brackish water, estuary, exposed coast, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Attached with a fine byssus to logs, reeds, matted algae or to underside of rocks

 

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Fluviolanatus subtortus (Dunker, 1857). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504754 (Accessed on 2015-04-24)

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. [357, 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 [14]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [250]

Morton, B. 1982. The biology, functional morphology and taxonomic status of Fluviolanatus subtorta (Bivalvia: Trapeziidae), a heteromyarian bivalve possessing "zooxanthellae". Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5(3-4): 113-140

 

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)
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	ARCTICOIDEA	17-Sep-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		22-Mar-2011	MODIFIED