Species Gastrochaena (Gastrochaena) cuneiformis Spengler, 1783

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gastrochaena cuneiformis Spengler, L. 1783. Beskrivelse over an nye Sláegt of toskallede Muskeler, som kan kaldes Gastrochaena, i tre foranderlige Arter, hvoraf hver boer i et forskiellight Ormehuus. Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter 2: 174-183 [180, pl. 1, figs. 8-11].
• Gastrochaena gigantea Deshayes, G.P. 1830. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 2, Part 2 pp. 1-144. [Date published 1 February 1830] [142].
• Gastrochaena frondosa Cotton, B.C. 1934. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, Southern Australia, No. 3. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5(2): 173-178 [177, figs 1-2].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D10968, Backstairs Passage, SA, 35 fathoms.
• Rochellaria hawaiiensis Dall, W.H., Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H.A. 1938. A manual of the recent and fossil marine Pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Island. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 153: 3-233, pls 1-57 [Date published July 25] [202, pl. 51, figs 1-5].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Gastrochaena (Gastrochaena) cuneiformis Spengler, 1783.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Borer, continental shelf, coral, intertidal, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 64 m

 

General References

Carter, J.C., Mcdowell, T. & Namboodiri, N. 2008. The identity of Gastrochaena cuneiformis Spengler, 1783, and the evolution of Gastrochaena, Rochellaria, and Lamychaena (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Gastrochaenoidea). Journal of Paleontology 82(1): 102-117

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] [306-307, fig. 337] (as Gastrochaena frondosa Cotton, 1934)

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [570-571, fig. 185A] (contains additional synonyms)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [196]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [199] (as Gastrochaena (Gastrochaena) gigantea)

Purchon, R.D. 1954. A note on the biology of the Lamellibranch Rocellaria (Gastrochaena) cuneiformis Spengler. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 124: 17–33

Taki, I. & Habe, T. 1955. Gastrochaenidae, Vesicomyidae. pp. 1-5 in Kuroda, T. (ed). Illustrated Catalogue of Japanese Shells. Tokyo : Unknown publisher Vol. 2. [1-2, pl. 2, figs 8a-b]

 

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)
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11-Aug-2014	MYIDA	28-Jul-2014	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014	MYIDA	21-Mar-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		10-Mar-2011	MODIFIED