Genus Myochama Stutchbury, 1830

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• Myochama 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 [97] [Myocamus [Chenu, 1858, Encyclopédie d'histoire naturelle. Tables générales: 40] is an incorrect subsequent spelling].

  Type species:

   Myochama anomioides Stutchbury, 1830 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Harper, E.M., Dreyer, H. & Steiner, G. 2006. Reconstructing the Anomalodesmata (Mollusca: Bivalvia): morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(3): 395-420 (included)

Harper, E.M. & B. Morton 2000. The biology and functional morphology of Myochama anomioides Stutchbury, 1830 (Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata: Pandoroidea), with reference to cementation. Journal of Molluscan Studies 66(3): 403-416

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)

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. [503, 786]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [216]

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N847]

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