Species Limopsis (Versipella) soboles (Iredale, 1931)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Versipella soboles Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [203].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.24366 dry, 27.5 mls east of Sydney Heads, New South Wales, Australia, 300 fathoms, green sandy mud [33°49‘58.8‘S 151°49‘1.2‘E].
• Senectidens dannevigi 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.105644 dry, off Gabo Island, Victoria, Australia, 80 fathoms [38°10‘1.2‘S 149°55‘1.2‘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) soboles (Iredale, 1931). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [68, fig. 119]
• Limopsis (Versipella) soboles (Iredale, 1931). —
  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] (records subgeneric change; new combination)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Records from QLD and VIC from Australian Museum mollusc collection

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Continental shelf to 600 m; sand.

 

General References

Garrard, T.A. 1961. Mollusca collected by M. V. "Challenger" off the east coast of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 3–38 [4] (as Senectidens dannevigi Iredale and Versipella soboles Iredale)

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.

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]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [68, fig. 119]

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 1, 2] (as Senectidens dannevigi, p. 16-17, pl. 2, figs 8, 9 as Versipella soboles)

 

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