Species Parvikellia meridionalis (Tate, 1887)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Montacuta meridionalis Tate, R. 1887. Descriptions of some new species of South Australian marine and fresh-water Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 62-75 [68, pl. 5, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.12891, shell sand, Aldinga Bay, South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Parvikellia meridionalis (Tate, 1887). —
  Laseron, C. 1956. A Revision of the New South Wales Leptonidae. Mollusca: Pelecypoda. Records of the Australian Museum 24(2): 7-21, text-figs 1-27 [9]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General 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. [314]

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] [236, fig.250]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [222]

Huber, M. 2015. Compendium of Bivalves 2. A full-color guide to the remaining seven families. A systematic listing of 8,500 bivalve species and 10,500 synonyms. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 907 pp, 1 CD-ROM. [Date published May: Markus Huber, Annioe Langleit &​ Kurt Kreipl: TELLINIDAE; Markus Huber: all other parts] [516, 537; on CD]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [158, fig. 428]

 

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	GALEOMMATOIDEA	18-May-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014		10-May-2011	MODIFIED
		05-May-2011	MODIFIED