Species Nucula (Nucula) mayi (Iredale, 1930)
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
August 2002 - Peter U. Middelfart, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Pronucula decorosa May, W.L. 1915 [1916]. Additions to the Tasmanian Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1915: 75-99 [issued separately 31 December 1915] [81, pl. 8, fig. 42] [junior homonym of Pronucula decorosa Hedley, 1902].
Type data:
Lectotype SAMA D.10114, 16.5 m, Pilot Station, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania, Australia.Secondary source:
Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [692]. - Pronucula mayi 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] [384] [nom. nov. for Pronucula decorosa May, 1902].
Type data:
Lectotype SAMA D.10114, 16.5m, Pilot Station, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania (this locality may be erroneous).Secondary source:
Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [692-694]. - Pronucula cancellata Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [224].
Type data:
Syntype(s).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [692]
- Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [32]
Generic Combinations
- Nucula mayi (Iredale, 1930). —
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [32, fig. 6] - Nucula mayi (Iredale, 1930). —
Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [692, figs 33-35]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
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
Marine, sand bottom, subtidal.
General References
Bergmans, W. 1968. A survey of the species of the genus Pronucula in New South Wales. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 11: 71-78 [73, pl. 11, figs2a-c] (as Pronucula cancellata)
Bergmans, W. 1969. Description of a new Pronucula (Bivalvia, Nuculidae) from New South Wales and additional notes on some other species of the same genus. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 12: 61-63 [62]
Bergmans, W. 1978. Taxonomic revision of Recent Australian Nuculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia), except Ennucula Iredale, 1931. Records of the Australian Museum 31(17): 673-736 [Date published 31 Dec] [692, figs 33-35]
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [32, fig. 6]
History of changes
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| 16-Aug-2012 | 16-Aug-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 15-Aug-2012 | 15-Aug-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 23-Oct-2014 | 09-Aug-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 23-Oct-2014 | 04-Aug-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 03-Aug-2010 | MODIFIED |