Species Myadora albida Tenison-Woods, 1876

Museums

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• Myadora albida Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [160].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Long Bay, Tasmania.
• Myadora corrugata Verco, J.C. 1896. Descriptions of new species of marine Mollusca of South Australia. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 20: 217-232 [229, pl. 8, figs 1, 1a, 1b] [junior homonym; not M. corrugata Tate, 1886].
• Myadora subalbida Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1914. On some new species of Victorian marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 27(1): 94-98, pls 14-16 [96, pl. 15, fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Westen Port, Victoria, Australia.
• Myadora iredalei Cotton, B.C. 1931. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, Southern Australia, No. 2. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(3): 333-354 [Date published June 30] [342] [replacement name; for M. corrugata Verco, 1896].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D10149, Yankalilla Bay, South Australia, 20 fathoms.

 

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, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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 slope, in sandy mud, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 364 m

 

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] [152-153, fig. 144] (as Myadora iredalei)

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. (on CD)

Huber, M. & Tran, B. 2010. Myadora albida Tenison-Woods, 1876. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506808 (Accessed on 2015-01-14)

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 [15]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [218, fig. 640]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. (p. 390, 392, fig. 456 as Myadora albida; p. 395, fig. 462 as Myadora subalbida)

 

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	PHOLADOMYIDA	16-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		18-Jul-2011	MODIFIED