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Species Myadora brevis (Sowerby, 1829)


Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, in sandy mud, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 44 m

 

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. [299]

Checa, A.G. & Harper, E.M. 2010. Spikey bivalves: intra-periostracal crystal growth in anomalodesmatans. Biological Bulletin 219: 231-248 (included)

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] [150-151, fig. 141] (as Myadora triggi)

Healy, J.M., Rüdiger, B. & Mikkelsen, P.M 2008. Spermatozoa of the Anomalodesmata (Bivalvia, Mollusca) with special reference to relationships within the group. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 89(4): 339-350 (included in study)

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. [504] (on CD)

Huber, M. & Tran, B. 2010. Myadora brevis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1827). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506788 (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. [216, fig. 633]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [392]

Stutchbury, S. 1830. On two new genera of Testaceous Mollusca, and five new species of the genus Anatina, lately discovered at Port Jackson, New South Wales. Zoological Journal London 5(17): 95-101, pls 42-43 [99, pl. 43, figs 1-2] (as Anatina brevis)

Taylor, J.D., Williams, S.T., Glover, E.A. & Dyal, P. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes. Zoologica Scripta 36(6): 587-606 (included)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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
18-Jul-2011 MODIFIED