Species Oxyperas coppingeri (Smith, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mactra (Oxyperas) copperingi Smith, E.A. 1884. Mollusca. pp. 34–116, 487–508, 657–659, pls 4–7. In, Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis. [Part I. Collections of Melanesia, pp. 34–116; Part II. Collections from the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 487–508; explanation of plates pp. 657–659] [100, pl. 7, figs d-d2] [according to Vongpanich (2000) maybe the same as Mactra lentiginosa].

Generic Combinations

• Spisula (Oxyperas) coppingeri (Smith, 1884). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [82, pl. 39]
• Oxyperas coppingeri (Smith, 1884).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand.

General References

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [82, pl. 39, fig. 269]

Smith, E.A. 1914. A list of Australian Mactridae, with a description of a new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 11: 137-151 [141] (as Mactra (Oxyperas) coppingeri Smith, 1884)

Vongpanich, V. 2000. Family Mactridae (Mollusca:Bivalvia) in Thai waters. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 2 21: 483-498 [492]

History of changes