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Species Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819)

Flattened Oyster (for Ostrea procles)


Compiler and date details

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

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Dampier, WA record from shells only; Indo-Pacific from East Africa to French Polynesia and Hawaii. South to Sydney according to the Australian Museum Sydney mollusc collection


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Attached to rocks, coral or debris

 

General 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. [275]

Deshayes, G.P. 1836. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 7 735 pp. [222]

Harry, H.W. 1981. Nominal species of living oysters proposed during the last fifty years. The Veliger 24(1): 39-45 [43] (author notes that Ostrea procles is a probable synonym of Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819), in contrast to Thomson (1954) who place the name in synonymy of Hyotissa hyotis. The synonymies of both taxa need further substanciation and clarity. A logical consequence of Harry placing O. procles in the synonymy of H. numisma is that the preoccupied name Ostrea cerata Hedley, 1906 (not Ostrea cerata Sowerby, 1871) that O. procles replaced follows suit)

Harry, H.W. 1985. Synopsis of the supraspecific classification of living oysters (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae). The Veliger 28(2): 121-158 [132, fig. 15]

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 [12]

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. [537, fig. 173D-E] (as Ostrea hanleyana Sowerby, 1871)

Kirkendale, L., Lee, T., Baker, P. & ÓFoighil, D. 2004. Oysters of the Conch Republic (Florida Keys): a molecular phylogenetic study of Parahyotissa mcginty, Teskeyostrea weberi and Ostreola equestris. Malacologia 46(2): 309-326

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [130, fig. 324]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [89] (in genus Hyotissa)

Paulay, G. 1996. New records and synonymies of Hawaiian bivalves (Mollusca). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 45: 18-29 [24]

Slack-Smith, S.M. & Bryce, C.W. 2004. A survey of the benthic molluscs of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 66: 221-245 [237] (one identified specimen and other with ? No indication whether specimen was alive)

Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2004. Diversity and distribution of subtidal benthic molluscs from the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia; results of the 1999 dredge survey (DA2/99). Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 66: 247-291 [262] (dead shells from WA)

Tëmkin, I. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(342): 1-28 [4, figs 2, 5, 6, 8, 10]

Torigoe, K. 2004. Oysters in the world. Part 2. Systematic description of the Recent oysters. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 3(3): 1-63, pls I-XIII, index (1-9) [6-7, pl. 1, fig. 5a-5e]

 

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)
11-Aug-2014 28-Jul-2014 MOVED
11-Aug-2014 OSTREOIDEA 24-Jan-2011 MOVED Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014 20-Jan-2011 MODIFIED
07-Jan-2011 MODIFIED