Species Lingula rostrum (Shaw, 1797)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mytilus rostrum Shaw, G. 1797. The Naturalist's Miscellany: or coloured figures of Natural objects, drawn and described from Nature. Author : London Vol. 9 pls 301-324. [pl. 315].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Amboina.

  Secondary source:

   Emig, C.C. 1979. Three species of Lingula from the Queensland Coast. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19(3): 381-391 [384].
• Lingula hians Swainson, W. 1823. The specific characters of several undescribed shells. Philosophical Magazine London 62: 401-403 [401].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, China.

  Secondary source:

   Emig, C.C. 1979. Three species of Lingula from the Queensland Coast. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19(3): 381-391 [384]; Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367 [355].
• Lingula exusta Reeve, L.A. 1859. Monograph of the genus Lingula. 2 pls in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 13. [pl. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Moreton Bay, Queensland.

  Secondary source:

   Emig, C.C. 1979. Three species of Lingula from the Queensland Coast. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19(3): 381-391 [384]; Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367 [355].
• Lingula bancrofti Johnston, T.H. & Hirschfeld, O.S. 1920. The Lingulidae of the Queensland coast. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 31: 46-84 [67, pl. 1, figs. 1-4].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, QM, Burnett Head, Queensland.

  Secondary source:

   Emig, C.C. 1979. Three species of Lingula from the Queensland Coast. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19(3): 381-391 [384].
• Lingula jaspidea Adams, A. 1863. On the genera and species of recent Brachiopoda found in the seas of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 98-101 [101].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mososeki, Japan.

  Secondary source:

   Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367 [355].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Emig, C.C. 1979. Three species of Lingula from the Queensland Coast. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19(3): 381-391 [384]
• Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367 [355]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Verified distribution from northern NSW to NE Queensland, and Broome.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits etc. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 912-935 [935]

Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367 [355]

Hedley, C. 1917. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XIII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 680–719 [694-695] (discussion of Australian Lingula spp.)

Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M113] (name in list)

Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 1-161 [294] (record from Sydney Harbour)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)