Species Lortiella froggatti Iredale, 1934

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Species Lortiella froggatti Iredale, 1934

Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

April 2004 - Brian J. Smith, S. Reid & Winston F. Ponder, Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, TAS and Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

1992 - Brian J. Smith, Museum Victoria, Melbourne

Lortiella froggatti Iredale, T. 1934. The freshwater mussels of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8(1): 57-78 pls iii-vi [71].
Type data:
Holotype AM C61862, Lennard River, WA.
Paratype(s) AM C61863 (19 specimens and 2 valves); AM(MMUS) A40 (29 specimens); NMV F17038 (2 specimens).
Secondary source:
Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [53].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Lennard and Fitzroy Rivers, Myroodah Crossing, north WA, also Pilbara Region (Klunzinger et al. 2013).

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Northern Territory: N coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Coastal rivers.

General References

Klunzinger, M.W., Jones, H.A., Keleher, J. & Morgan, D.L. 2013. A new record of Lortiella froggatti Iredale, 1934 (Bivalvia: Unionoida: Hyriidae) from the Pilbara region, Western Australia, with notes on anatomy and geographic range. Records of the Western Australian Museum 28(1): 1-5

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [140, figs 346a, b]

McMichael, D.F. & Hiscock, I.D. 1958. A monograph of the freshwater mussels (Mollusca : Pelecypoda) of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 9: 372-508 [434-435, pl. 9, figs 3-5]

Walker, K.F., Byrne, M., Hickey, C.W. & Roper, D.S. 2001. Freshwater Mussels (Hyriidae) of Australasia. pp. 5-31 in Bauer, G. & Wächtler, K. (eds). Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Mussels Unionoida. Berlin, Germany : Springer-Verlag 394 pp. [9]

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
16-Nov-2010		16-Nov-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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