Subgenus Musculus (Musculus) Röding, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Musculus Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [156].

  Type species:

   Mytilus discors Linnaeus, 1767 by subsequent designation, see Iredale, T. 1915. A commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 417-497 [Date published 12 July 1915] [484].
• Planimodiola Cossmann, M. 1887. Catalogue Illustré des Coquilles Fossiles de l'Éolcène des Environs de Paris. Annales de la Société Malacologique de Belgique 22: 3-198, pls 1-8 [Date published April] [155].

  Type species:

   Modiola sulcata Lamarck, 1805 by original designation.
• Modiolaria Beck, H.H. 1838. In Robert, E. Voyage en Islande et au Groënland exécuté pendant les années 1835 et 1836 sur la corvette "La Recherche"... dans le but de découvrir les traces de "La Lilloise". Minéralogie et Géologie. Publié par ordre du Roi sous la direction de M. Paul Gaimard. Paris: Arthus Bertrand. pp. [Reference has not been located and cannot be cited in full] [pl. 17] [objective synonym].

  Type species:

   Mytilus discors Linnaeus, 1767 by subsequent designation, see Dall, W.H. 1898. Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the silex beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River, including in many cases a complete revision of the generic groups treated of and thier American Tertiary species. Part IV. I. Prionodesmacea: Nucula to Julia. 2. Teleodesmacea: Teredo to Ervilia. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia 3(4): 571-947, pls 23-35 [804].
• Lanistina Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242 [199] [objective synonym; new name for Lanistes Swainson, 1840, not Montfort, 1810].

  Type species:

   Mytilus discors Linnaeus, 1767 by original designation.

 

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.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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.

 

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)
		01-Sep-2012	ADDED