Genus Kellia Turton, 1822

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kellia Turton, W. 1822. Conchylia Insularum Britannicarum. The Shells of the British Islands. London : M.A. Nattali, Covent-Garden & Combe and Son, Leicester xlvii, 279 pp. [56].
• Chironia Deshayes, G. 1839. Nouvelles espèces de mollusques, provenant de côtes de la Californie, du Mexique, du Kamtschatka et de le Nouvelle-Zélande. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne 2: 356-357 [Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne, 2: 356, 357].

  Type species:

   Chironia laperousii Deshayes, 1839 by monotypy.
• Oronthea Gray, 1852 [objective synonym; Leach ms; A synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain... [MS work edited by Gray]: 267, 274].

  Type species:

   Oronthea montaguana Leach, 1852 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Bouchet, P. & Gofas, S. 2011. Kellia Turton, 1822. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138095 (Accessed on 2017-06-07)

Coan, E.V. & Valentich-Scott, P. 2012. Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2 vols. pp.1258.

Dall, W.H. 1900. Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida with special Reference to the Silex Beds of Tampa and the Pliocene Beds of the Caloosahatchie River including in many cases complete revision of the Generic Groups Treatted of and their American Tertiary Species. Part 5 - Teleodesmacea: Solen to Diplodonta. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia 3(5): 949-1218, pls 36-47 [1153]

Jeffreys J.G. 1863. British Conchology. London : van Voorst Vol. 2 479 pp. [Date published 1864] [225]

Jespersen, A. & J. Lutzen 2007. Sperm ultrastructure in Kellia suborbicularis (Bivalvia: Galeommatoidea: Kellidae). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 88(1): 59-63

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [152]

Lebour, M.V. The life history of Kellia suborbicularis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 22: 447-471

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N523]

Oldfield, E. 1961. The functional morphology of Kellia suborbicularis (Montagu), Montacuta ferruginosa (Montagu) and M. substriata (Montagu), (Mollusca, Lamellibranchiata). Journal of Molluscan Studies 34(5): 255-295

 

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)
23-Apr-2018	BIVALVIA	10-Apr-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	GALEOMMATOIDEA	12-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		29-Apr-2011	MODIFIED