Species Micropolia depressa Laseron, 1953

Museums

Regional Maps

• Micropolia depressa Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [48] [figs 35 and 35a, b].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.090579 31 valves, Sow & Pigs Reef, Port Jackson, Sydney.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neolepton depressum (Laseron, 1953) [changed combination, Middelfart pers. comm. 2010].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

 

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. [on CD]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [21]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [166, fig. 467] (as Micropolia depressa)

Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [48]

 

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)
23-Apr-2018	BIVALVIA	10-Apr-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	VENEROIDEA	13-May-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014		14-Jul-2011	MOVED
		14-Jul-2011	MODIFIED