Subgenus Gafrarium (Gafrarium) Röding, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gafrarium Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [176].

  Type species:

   Venus pectinata Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Dall, W.H. 1902. Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American recent species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 26(1312): 335-412, pls 12-16 [350] (placed on the Official List by Opinion 1189, 1981, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 38(4): 243. Gaffraria (attributed to "Megerle MS"), Scudder, 1882, Nomenclator Zoologicus (Bulletin of the United States National Museum 19: 140) is an incorrect subsequent spelling).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

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. (on CD)

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