Species Lepton australis Angas, 1878

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepton australis Angas, G.F. 1878. Descriptions of ten species of marine shells from the province of South Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878(4): 861-864 [863, pl. 54, fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Glenelg and Port Creek, South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 37 m; among byssal threads of mussels

 

Notes

Huber (2015: 506) considers the "typical Lepton sculpture...lacking", and thus places it in a new unnamed genus.

 

General References

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] [217]

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] [145, 506, 4 text figs; on CD] (as Gen. nov. L1 australe)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [158, fig. 423] (as Lepton australe)

 

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	18-May-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		05-May-2011	MODIFIED