Species Mysella concentrica (Gould, 1861)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepton concentrica Gould, A.A. 1861. Descriptions of shells collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition (continued). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 8: 14-40 [33].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, USNM 24306.
• Mysella anomala Angas, G.F. 1877. Description of one genus and twenty-five species of marine shells from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 171-177, pl. 26, figs 26, 27 [176, pl. 26, fig. 22].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1877.5.12.108 (is this AM C.153360 ?), Shark Island, Port Jackson, New South Wales.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huber, M. 2015. Compendium of Bivalves 2. A full-color guide to the remaining seven families. A systematic listing of 8,500 bivalve species and 10,500 synonyms. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 907 pp, 1 CD-ROM. [Date published May: Markus Huber, Annioe Langleit &​ Kurt Kreipl: TELLINIDAE; Markus Huber: all other parts] [523-524; on CD]

Generic Combinations

• Rochefortia anomala (Angas, 1877). —
  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 [207]
• Mysella concentrica (Gould, 1861).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Mud, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

15 - 73m

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. [315] (as anomala)

Gofas, S. & Salas, C. 2008. A review of European 'Mysella' species (Bivalvia, Montacutidae), with description of Kurtiella new genus. Journal of Molluscan Studies 74(2): 119 - 135 (M. anomala as type of Mysella compared to new genus with illustration of syntype material of M. anomala)

Grove, S.J. 2015. Mysella concentrica (Gould, 1861) ('concentric lepton'). A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania web-site and database. http://molluscsoftasmania.net/Species%20pages/Mysella%20concentrica.html (Accessed 4 Apr 2016)

Huber, M. 2015. Compendium of Bivalves 2. A full-color guide to the remaining seven families. A systematic listing of 8,500 bivalve species and 10,500 synonyms. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 907 pp, 1 CD-ROM. [Date published May: Markus Huber, Annioe Langleit &​ Kurt Kreipl: TELLINIDAE; Markus Huber: all other parts] [153, 523-524, 4 text figs; on CD]

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 [20] (as anomala and L. concentrica)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [162, fig. 438] (as M. anomala)

Laseron, C. 1956. A Revision of the New South Wales Leptonidae. Mollusca: Pelecypoda. Records of the Australian Museum 24(2): 7-21, text-figs 1-27 [18, figs 23, 23a-b] (as anomala)

History of changes