Species Limopsis (Glycilima) penelevis Verco, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limopsis tenisoni penelevis Verco, J.C. 1907. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part VI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31: 213-230 [Date published 9 Dec] [218, pl. 27, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D13046, Beachport, South Australia, 150 fathoms.
• Glycilima paradoxa Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [204].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.62324, 16 ml east of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 100 fathoms. [34°25‘1.2‘S 151°15‘0‘E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

 

Generic Combinations

• Limopsis (Pectunculina) paradoxa (Iredale, 1931).
• Limopsis (Limopsis) penelevis Verco, 1907. —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [66, fig. 106]
• Limopsis (Glycilima) penelevis (Verco, 1907). —
  Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [586, 588]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 550 m

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [48, fig. 27]

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [586, 588]

Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [160]

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 [8] (as Glycilima paradoxa Iredale, 1931 = Limopsis (Pectunculina) paradoxa (Iredale, 1931))

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [66] (fig. 106; fig. 108, as Glycilima paradoxa Iredale, 1931 = Limopsis (Pectunculina) paradoxa (Iredale, 1931))

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [8]

May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. [Date published 31 July 1923] [pl. 1, fig. 13]

McMichael, D.F. & Vooorwinde, J. 1966. Illustrations of unfigured New South Wales marine molluscs, Part 1. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 10: 13-20, pls 12, 13 [17, pl. 3, figs 3-5] (as Glycilima paradoxa Iredale, 1931 = Limopsis (Pectunculina) paradoxa (Iredale, 1931))

 

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)
29-Aug-2012		29-Aug-2012	MOVED
29-Jan-2013		21-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		14-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Sep-2010	MODIFIED