Species Myllita (Myllita) deshayesi d'Orbigny & Récluz, 1850
Deshayes' Myllita
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Myllita deshayesi D'Orbigny, A. & Récluz, C. 1850. Description d'un nouveau genre de Coquilles bivalves, nommé Myllite (Myllita). Journal de Conchyliologie 1: 288-292 [292].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, la Nouvelle-Holland [restricted to Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia].
Distribution
States
South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Red Sea.
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.
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] [332, fig. 244]
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] [218]
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [156]
Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [335, fig. 381]
Mienis, H.K. 1994. Myllita deshayesi: a stranger on the beach of Elat (Mollusca , Bivalvia, Leptonidae). Levantina 80: 3-4
Common Name 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, fig. 7] (Deshayes' Myllita)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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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 | 11-May-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
05-May-2011 | MODIFIED |