Species Myadora complexa Iredale, 1924

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myadora complexa Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [181, 201, pl. 33, figs 3, 4].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.90596 dry, Twofold Bay, New South Wales, Australia [37°4'58.8'S, 149°54'0'E]; AM C.90535 dry, Twofold Bay, New South Wales, Australia [37°4'58.8'S, 149°54'0'E].
• Myadora pervalida 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] [343, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D10149, St Francis Island, 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. (see CD for junior homonym)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, 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)

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

To 27 m

 

General References

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

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, 787] (on CD)

Huber, M. & Tran, B. 2010. Myadora complexa Iredale, 1924. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506803 (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. 636]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [392-393]

 

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
		14-Jul-2011	MODIFIED