Species Mimachlamys asperrima (Lamarck, 1819)
Doughboy, Doughboy Scallop, Fan Shell, Prickly Scallop
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Pecten asperrimus Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [174].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHNP Moll21197 pr, “Habite les mers australes, à la Nouvelle Hollande [Australia], les côtes de Diémen” [Tasmania].
Paralectotype(s) MNHNP Moll21198 3, same data as Holotype; MHNG 1088/66/1-6 7, same data as Holotype. - Pecten australis Sowerby, G.B. 2nd 1842. Genera Pecten and Hinnites. 45-80, pls 12-20 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1(2). [76, pl. 19, figs 210, 220].
Type data:
Status unknown, Swan River. - Pecten antiaustralis Tate, R. 1886. The lamellibranchs of the Older Tertiary of Australia. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 8: 96-158 [106, pl. 9, fig. 7a-c].
Type data:
Holotype Upper Beds (Lower Pliocene?), Aldinga, South Australia. - Chlamys (Chlamys) polyaktinos Ludbrook, N.H. 1955. The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide plains. Part II. Pelecypoda. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 78: 18-87 [30, pl. 4, fig. 16].
Type data:
Holotype F15120, Abattoirs Bore, Adelaide Pliocene.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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. (see Cd for additional synonyms)
Generic Combinations
- Mimachlamys asperrima (Lamarck, 1819). —
Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [22, pl. 9, fig. 50]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Caloundra, QLD (26°49'S) to off Carnarvon, WA (24°52'S) including TAS; temperate
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, marine, sand.
Extra Ecological Information
Attached to hard substrates
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] [105]
Dijkstra, H.H. & Beu, A.G. 2018. Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 70(2): 113-330 [277]
Gatliff, J.H. & Singleton, F.A. 1930. On the relationships between Pecten asperrimus Lamarck and Pecten antiaustralis Tate with a description of an allied fossil form. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.) 42(2): 71-77, pls 2-4 [71]
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 [11]
Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [22, pl. 9, fig. 50]
Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [268, pl. 212 figs 1-3; pl. 213 figs 1-4]
Zacharin, W. 1994. Reproduction and recruitment in the Doughboy scallop, Chlamys asperrimus, in the d'Entrecasteaux channel, Tasmania. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 36(2): 299-306
Common Name References
Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [280] (Doughboy, Prickly Scallop)
Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [303] (Doughboy Scallop, Fan Shell)
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) |
| 02-Apr-2020 | PECTINOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815 | 31-Mar-2020 | MODIFIED | |
| 15-Feb-2011 | 15-Feb-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 26-Jun-2013 | 09-Feb-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 17-Jan-2011 | MODIFIED |