Species Merisca margaritina (Lamarck, 1818)

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• Tellina margaritina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [525].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 24505, 24506, Port du Roi Georges (King Georges Sound, WA).
• Tellina mariae Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [162].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) TM 7482/E141, Tasmania.
• Tellina modesta Tate, R. 1889. A supplement to the list of the Lamellibranchs and Palliobranch Mollusca of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 67-69 [68] [non Sowerby, 1883, non Carpenter, 1865].
• Tellina australiensis Thiele, J. 1930. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. pp. 561-596 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmayer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5. [594, fig. 78].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Princess Royal Harbour near Albany (station 61), West Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Merisca margaritina (Lamarck, 1818).
• Homalina mariae (Tenison-Woods, 1875). —
  Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [377, fig. 441]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Tellina (Macomona) margaritina Lamarck, 1818. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [96, pl. 46, fig. 331]
• Tellina (Macomona) mariae Tenison-Woods, 1876. —
  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]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 23 metres.

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [273, fig. 299] (as Macomona mariae Tenison-Woods, 1876)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [377, fig. 441] (as Homalina mariae)

Sartori, A.F. 2012. Tellina margaritina Lamarck, 1818. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=710898 (Accessed on 2015-03-23. Merisca is an accepted alternate representation of Tellina, thus this entry, Merisca margaritina, is left as it is)

 

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)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	TELLINOIDEA	31-Jul-2014	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014	TELLINOIDEA	25-Jun-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		22-Jun-2011	MODIFIED