Genus Lissarca E.A. Smith, 1879

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lissarca Smith, E.A. 1877. Mollusca. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 168: 167-192, pl. IX [167, 185].

  Type species:

   Arca rubrofusca Smith, 1879 by monotypy.
• Austrosarepta Hedley, C. 1899. Description of a new genus Austrosarepta and notes on other mollusca from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 24: 429-434, figs 1-7 [430].

  Type species:

   Austrosarepta picta Hedley, 1899 by original designation.

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.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

General References

Bergmans, W. 1970. The validity of the genera Lissarca, Austrosarepta, Cratis and Denticosa, with notes on some Australian species (Bivalvia, Philobryide). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 2: 35-38 [35-36]

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] [54] (Key)

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. [161, 590-591]

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 Austrosarepta Hedley, 1899)

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [51] (as Austrosarepta)

Tevesz, M.J. 1977. Taxonomy and ecology of the Philobryidae and Limopsidae (Mollusca: Pelecypoda). Postilla 171: 1-65 [18-20] (in Philobryidae)

History of changes