Species Gari (Gobraeus) oriens (Deshayes, 1855)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psammobia oriens Deshayes, G.P. 1855 [imprint 1854]. Descriptions of new shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 22 for 1854: 317-371 [Date published May 1855] [318].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1984278/1, Sea of Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [53].
• Psammobia rossiteri Crosse, H. 1873. Diagnoses molluscorum, Novae Caledoniae incolarum. Journal de Conchyliologie 21: 65-67 [66].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.30599, Lifou, insularum - Loyalty dictarum (G. Rossiter), Noumea, Novae Caledoniae (E.Marie).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [52-53]

Generic Combinations

• Gari oriens (G.P. Deshayes, 1855). —
  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 [52-53]
• Gari (Psammocola) oriens (G.P. Deshayes, 1855). —
  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 [52-53]
• Gari (Gobraeus) castrensis oriens (G.P. Deshayes, 1855). —
  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 [52-55] (new combination)
• Dysmea oriens (G.P. Deshayes, 1855). —
  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 [52-53]
• Gari (Dysmea) oriens (G.P. Deshayes, 1855). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [58, pl. 53 fig. 396]
• Gari (Gobraeus) oriens (G.P. Deshayes, 1855). —
  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. [p.327]
• Gari (Psammocola) rossiteri (Crosse, 1873). —
  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 [52-53] (changed combination of synonym cited)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Psammobia (Psammocola) oriens G.P. Deshayes, 1855. —
  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 [52-53] (combination of synonym cited)
• Psammobia (Psammocola) rossiteri Crosse, 1873. —
  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 [52-53] (combination of synonym cited)
• Gari (Dysmea) occidens (Gmelin, 1791) [misidentification Cernohorsky, 1978: 186 pl.68 fig.1; misidentification Springsteen & Leobrera, 1986: 305, pl.86 fig.26 (not Solen occidens Gmelin, 1791 or Sanguinolaria occidens Lamarck, 1818)]. —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [186, pl. 68 fig. 1]
  Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [305, pl. 86 fig. 26] (not Solen occidens Gmelin, 1791 or Sanguinolaria occidens Lamarck, 1818)
• Gari (Psammacola) oriens (G.P. Deshayes, 1855) [misspelling for Psammocola]. —
  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 [52-53]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 65 m; clean sand or coral substrates.

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Gari oriens (Deshayes, 1855). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507149 (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. [327, CD: line 10947]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 53, 396]

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 [52-55, figs 214-222, 395]

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