Species Gomphina undulosa (Lamarck, 1818)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Venus undulosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [616].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN, King George Sound, WA.
• Venus variabilis Sowerby, G.B. 1st 1835. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3: 4-110 [42].
• Gomphina fulgida Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M24].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.171203, New South Wales, Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Gomphina undulosa (Lamarck, 1818). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [152, pl. 74, fig. 590]
• Gomphinella undulosa (Lamarck, 1818).
• Gomphina undulosa (Lamarck, 1818).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, intertidal, marine, mud, sand, subtidal.

 

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. [425, 745-746] (also on CD)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [152, pl. 74, fig. 590] (as G. undulosa, fig. 591 as G. fulgida)

Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1903. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part VII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 16(1): 96-139 [128]

Sartori, A.F. 2017. Gomphina undulosa (Lamarck, 1818). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737218 (Accessed on 2017-06-06)

 

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. [325, pl. 37, fig. 16] (Waved Venus)

 

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	VENEROIDEA	17-Oct-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014		17-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		25-Jul-2011	MODIFIED