Species Hemidonax pictus (Tryon, 1870)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Donax (Serrula) pictus Tryon, G.W. 1870. Descriptions of new species of marine bivalve mollusca in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences. American Journal of Conchology 6: 23-24, pl. 1 [23, pl. 1, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Moreton Bay, Qld.
• Cardium australiense Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits etc. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 912-935 [925] [non Reeve 1844].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

 

Generic Combinations

• Hemidonax pictus (Tryon, 1870). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [72, no. 228]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand.

 

General References

Healy, J.M., Mikkelsen, P.M. & Bieler, R. 2008. Sperm ultrastructure in Hemidonax pictus (Hemidonacidae, Bivalvia, Mollusca): comparison with other heterodonts, especially Cardiidae, Donacidae and Crassatelloidea. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153(2): 325-347

Huber, M. 2010. Hemidonax pictus. World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505394 (Accessed on 2015-04-24)

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. [436, 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 [21]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [72]

Ponder, W.F., Colman, P.H., Colman, M.H. & Yonge, C.M. 1981. The taxonomic position of Hemidonax Mörch, 1871 with a review of the genus (Bivalvia: Cardiacea). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 5: 41-64 [48-49, figs 6, 7, 12, pl. 2, figs 1-5]

Taylor, J.D., Williams, S.T., Glover, E.A. & Dyal, P. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes. Zoologica Scripta 36(6): 587-606 (species included in analysis)

 

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		31-Jul-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	HEMIDONACIDAE	13-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		04-Apr-2011	MODIFIED