Species Monia (Tenuimonia) deliciosa Iredale, 1936

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monia deliciosa Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [269, pl. 20, figs 7, 7a].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60605 dry, Bass Strait, off Cape Everard, Victoria, Australia, 75 fathoms [38°4‘58.8‘S, 149°16‘58.8‘E].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Monia (Tenuimonia) deliciosa Iredale, 1936. —
  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. (subgeneric status recognised)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Type from about 150 m in Bass Strait and original reference states habitat to be along continental shelf of NSW. Lamprell & Healy (1998) records it as littoral in sandy mud

 

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.

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 [12]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [128, fig. 319] (as Monia deliciosa Iredale, 1936)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [310]

Slack-Smith, S.M. & Bryce, C.W. 2004. A survey of the benthic molluscs of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 66: 221-245 [237] (as Monia ? deliciosa. Outside range, or range extension)

 

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)
26-Nov-2012		26-Nov-2012	MOVED
14-Jun-2013		14-Dec-2010	MOVED
25-Nov-2010		25-Nov-2010	MOVED
		25-Nov-2010	MODIFIED