Genus Lyonsia Turton, 1822

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• Lyonsia Turton, 1822.
• Bentholyonsia Habe, T. 1952. Genera of Japanese Shells. Pelecypoda, part 3. Kyoto : Habe, T. pp. [i-ii] + 187-280, text-figs 429-730. [257].

  Type species:

   Allogramma (Bentholyonsia) teramachii Habe, 1952 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Bouchet, P. & Gofas, S. 2013. Lyonsia. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138154 (Accessed on 2017-05-26)

Coan, E.V. & Valentich-Scott, P. 2012. Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2 vols. pp.1258.

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. [796] (also on CD)

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N847]

Morton, B. 2003. The functional morphology of Bentholyonsia teramachii (Bivalvia: Myonsiellidae): clues to the origin of predation in the deep water Anomalodesmata. Journal of Zoology, London 261: 363-380

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