Genus Scintilla Deshayes, 1856

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scintilla Deshayes, G.P. 1856. Sur le genre Scintilla. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1855(23): 171-181 [171].

  Type species:

   Scintilla philippinensis Deshayes, 1856 (subsequent designation: Stoliczka, 1871, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontographica Indica. Cretaceous fauna of southern India, 5: 267) by subsequent designation.
• Lactemiles Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [206].

  Type species:

   Scintilla strangei Deshayes, 1856 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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

Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1857. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 2(Parts XXIX-XXXII) pp. 413-540, pls 113-128. [480-481]

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 [20] (as Lactemiles)

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

Lützen, J. & Nielsen, C. 2005. Galeommatid bivalves from Phuket, Thailand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144: 261-308 [264-270]

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] [N536]

 

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	GALEOMMATOIDEA	12-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		05-May-2011	MODIFIED