Species Thiara amarula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Type data:
Status unknown, presumed lost, Asian waters (as Asiae fluviis).- Melania crenularis Deshayes, G.P. 1844. Genre Melania Cuvier. Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2: pl. 83 [pl. 83].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, le Île Philippines. - Melania (Tiara) cybele Gould, A.A. 1847. Descriptions of species of Melania, from the collection of the Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 222-225 [222].
Type data:
Syntype(s) USNM 453310 (14 specimens), Feejees [Fiji Islands], Navigators [Samoan Islands]; MCZ 169105 (6 specimens), Feejees [Fiji Islands], Navigators [Samoan Islands]; MCZ 78580 (9 specimens), Feejees [Fiji Islands], Navigators [Samoan Islands]. - Melania diadema Lea, I. & Lea, H.C. 1851. Description of a new genus of the family Melaniana and of many new species of the genus Melania chiefly collected by Hugh Cuming Esq. during his zoological voyage in the east, and now first described. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850: 179-197 [28 Feb. 1851] [194].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, small streams, Isle of Guimaris, Philippines. - Melania (Tiara) speciosa Adams, A. 1854. Descriptions of New species of Semele, Rhizochilus, Plotia and Tiara in the Cumingian Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1853: 94-99 [Date published July 1854] [99].
Type data:
Status unknown, BMNH, New Caledonia. - Thiara amaruloidea Iredale, T. 1943. A basic list of the freshwater Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 10(2): 188-230 [207].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM C100605 (1 specimen), Cardwell, QLD; AM C109657 (2 specimens), Cardwell, QLD.
Generic Combinations
- Melania amarula (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Suite des Gastéropodes. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(2) 232 pp. [Date published Apr. 1822] [166] - Thiara (Thiara) amarula (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [77]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Indo Pacific, from east Africa to Samoa. The geographic range of N Gulf, N coastal, WA and NT presented in Smith (1992: 78) is erroneous (Glaubrecht et al., 2009)
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.
General References
Benthem Jutting, W.S.S. van 1956. Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. V. Critical revision of the Javanese freshwater gastropods. Treubia 23: 259-477 (biogeography)
Glaubrecht, M., Brinkmann, N. & Pöppe, J. 2009. Diversity and disparity 'down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the 'marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. Zoosystematics and Evolution 85(2): 199-275 [213-215, figs 1a, 2g, 5-7]
Schütt, S. & Glaubrecht, M. 1999. Thiara amarula (Linné, 1758) (Caenogastropoda: Thiaridae) in Australia — new evidence on the anatomy of the reproductive system in a viviparous freshwater mollusc. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 215: 181-188
Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [78]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-Jun-2021 | THIARIDAE | 04-Feb-2015 | MODIFIED | Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |