Genus Melaxinaea Iredale, 1930

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melaxinaea Iredale, T. 1930. Queensland Molluscan notes, No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(1): 73–88 [73].

  Type species:

   Melaxinaea labryrintha Iredale, 1930 (= M. vitrea Lamarck, 1819) by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Andaman Islands, Philippines, Eastern Indian Ocean, Indo-Malaysia, Papua New Guinea.

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)

General References

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. [149, 584]

Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [302-303]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp.

Matsukuma, A. 1980. Glycymeridid bivalves from Japan and adjacent areas. Part 2, Indo-Western Pacific species of Melaxinaea Iredale, 1930 (Pliocene to Recent). Acta Geologica Polonica 2 30: 199-213 [200]

Nicol, D. 1945. Genera and Subgenera of the pelecypod family Glycymerididae. Journal of Paleontology 19: 616-621 [620]

 

History of changes

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)
29-Jan-2013		29-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		14-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
01-Oct-2010		01-Oct-2010	MOVED
		30-Sep-2010	MODIFIED