Genus Leporimetis Iredale, 1930

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leporimetis Iredale, T. 1930. Queensland Molluscan notes, No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(1): 73–88 [74].

  Type species:

   Tellina spectabilis Hanley, 1844 by original designation.
• Florimetis Olsson, A.A. & Harbison, A. 1953. Pliocene Mollusca of South Florida. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 1-457, 65 pls [129].

  Type species:

   Tellina intastriata Say, 1826 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Coan, E.V., Valentich Scott, P. & Bernard, F.R. 2000. Bivalve Seashells of Western North America: Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Arctic Alaska to Baja California. California : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History viii, 764 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [104, pl. 50]

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] [N626, fig. E111, no. 10]

 

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	TELLINOIDEA	31-Jul-2014	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014	TELLINOIDEA	27-Jun-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		22-Jun-2011	MODIFIED