Species Gari (Psammobia) kenyoniana (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tellina kenyoniana Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1904. On some new species of Victorian Mollusca, No. 7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 17(1): 338-339, pl. 20 [339, pl. 20, figs 1-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F496, Airey's Inlet, South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Gari (Gari) kenyoniana (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1904). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [108, pl. 52, fig. 387]
• Gari kenyoniana (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1904). —
  May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [25, no. 192]
  Willan, R.C. 1993. Taxonomic revision of the family Psammobiidae (Bivalvia: Tellinoidea) in the Australian and New Zealand region. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 1-132 [47]
• Psammobia kenyoniana (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1904). —
  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [264, fig. 300]
• Gari (Psammobia) kenyoniana (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1904) [new combination]. —
  Willan, R.C. 1993. Taxonomic revision of the family Psammobiidae (Bivalvia: Tellinoidea) in the Australian and New Zealand region. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 1-132 [47, Figs 186-191, 393]

 

Distribution

States

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 40 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] [280-281, fig. 309]

Huber, M. 2010. Gari kenyoniana (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1904). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507169 (Accessed on 2015-02-24)

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. [CD: line 10913]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [108, pl. 52, fig. 387]

Willan, R.C. 1993. Taxonomic revision of the family Psammobiidae (Bivalvia: Tellinoidea) in the Australian and New Zealand region. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 1-132 [47, figs 186-191, 393]

 

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. [341, fig. 2] (Kenyon's Sunset Shell)

 

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	TELLINOIDEA	31-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		23-Jun-2011	MODIFIED