Species Modiolus peronianus Laseron, 1956

Museums

Regional Maps

• Modiolus peronianus Laseron, C. 1956. New South Wales Mussels - a taxonomic review of the family Mytilidae from the Peronian Zoogeographical Province. The Australian Zoologist 12(3): 263-283, figs 1-53 [269, figs 22-24].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.90536, on sand flats, low tide, Sydney, Port Hacking, Gunnamatta Bay, New South Wales, Australia [34°3‘57.6‘S 151°8‘31.2‘E].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Modiolus (Modiolus) peronianus Laseron, 1956. —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [80]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Distribution data from the Australian Museum, Sydney collection (in part)

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Garrard, T.A. 1961. Mollusca collected by M. V. "Challenger" off the east coast of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 3–38 [7]

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.

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 [13]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [80, fig. 165]

 

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)
06-Sep-2012		06-Sep-2012	MOVED
22-Sep-2010		22-Sep-2010	MOVED
27-May-2013		15-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		11-Aug-2010	MODIFIED