Species Granicorium indutum Hedley, 1906

Sand-covered Venus Shell

Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Granicorium indutum Hedley, C. 1906. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31(3): 453-479, pls 36-37 [477, pl. 38, fig. 26,27].
Type data:
Lectotype AM C 18868, Mast Head Reef, QLD.
Granicorium attonitum Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [278, pl. 20, fig. 17].
Type data:

Syntype(s) AM C.306370 dry, off Wattamolla, New South Wales, Australia [34°05'0'S, 151°15'0'E]; AM C.60638 dry, Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, Australia [34°51'0'S, 150°52'1.2'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

To 100 m

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. [381] (also on CD)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [22]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1999. Granicorium from Australian waters, with descriptions of a new species (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Veneridae). Molluscan Research 1 20: 73-78 [74]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [144, pl. 70, fig. 549]

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. [327] (Sand-covered Venus Shell)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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	29-Aug-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014		03-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		25-Jul-2011	MODIFIED