Species Mysella spernax (Iredale, 1930)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Virmysella spernax Iredale, T. 1930. More notes on the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 17(9): 384-407 [Date published 27 June] [394, pl. 64, figs 10-12].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.57837, ocean beach, Sydney, Manly Beach, New South Wales, Australia [33°47'60"S, 151°16'58.8"E]; AM C.321544, ocean beach, Sydney, Manly Beach, New South Wales, Australia [33°47'60"S, 151°16'58.8"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Mysella spernax (Iredale, 1930). —
  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 [19, figs 26, 26a, b]

 

Introduction

Lamprell & Healy (1998) overlooked the transfer of V. spernax to Mysella by Laseron (1956); reinstated herein

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sandy bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

17 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. [314]

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] [524; 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]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [162]

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 [19, figs 26, 26a, b]

 

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
11-Aug-2014	GALEOMMATOIDEA	18-May-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014		18-May-2011	MOVED
		05-May-2011	MODIFIED