Species Macomona australis (Deshayes, 1855)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tellina australis Deshayes, G.P. 1855 [imprint 1854]. Descriptions of new shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 22 for 1854: 317-371 [Date published May 1855] [362].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Tasmania.

Generic Combinations

• Macomona australis (Deshayes, 1855).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Tellina (Macomona) australis Deshayes, 1855. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [94, pl. 45, fig. 329]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand.

General References

Gofas, S. & Sartori, A.F. 2014. Macomona australis (Deshayes, 1855). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=711131 (Accessed on 2015-03-23. Alternate representation of Tellina australis (Deshayes, 1855))

Ponder, W.F. 1975. Notes on the synonymy of four Australian tellinids (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 3(2): 111-119 [114]

Simone, L.R.L. & Wilkinson, S. 2008. Comparative morphological study of some Tellinidae from Thailand (Bivalvia, Tellinoidea). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 18: 151-190

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