Species Kellia yorkensis (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Marikellia yorkensis Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [215].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA D.12903, Hardwicke Bay, South Australia, attached to old sharks egg cases by byssal thread.
Generic Combinations
- Kellia yorkensis (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938) [changed combination with author as Angas, 1877]. —
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [154]
Distribution
States
South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, in rubble, in sand, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, sublittoral, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
2 - 64m; in bays, byssally attached
General References
Huber, M. 2015. Compendium of Bivalves 2. A full-color guide to the remaining seven families. A systematic listing of 8,500 bivalve species and 10,500 synonyms. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 907 pp, 1 CD-ROM. [Date published May: Markus Huber, Annioe Langleit & Kurt Kreipl: TELLINIDAE; Markus Huber: all other parts] [138, 497-498, 3 text figs; on CD]
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [154, fig. 403] (as Kellia yorkensis (Angas, 1877))
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 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 | GALEOMMATOIDEA | 12-Feb-2014 | MODIFIED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) |
| 05-May-2011 | MODIFIED |