Subgenus Glycymeris (Glycymeris) da Costa, 1778

Museums

Regional Maps

• Glycymeris Da Costa, E.M. 1778. Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae or The British Conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland. London : E.M. Da Costa xii 254 pp. [168] [placed on the Official List by Opinion 1414, 1986, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 43(3): 258].

  Type species:

   Arca glycymeris Linnaeus, 1758 by Linnaean tautonymy.
• Axinaea Poli, G.S. 1791. Testacea utriusque Siciliae, eorumque historie et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata. Parma : Bodoni Vol. 1 pp. i-x (Preface), 1-90 (Introduction), 1-50 (Testaceae Multivalvia), 1-74 (Testaceae Bivalvia), I-lXXIII (Index), 18 pls. [32] [Axinea [Rafinesque, 1815, Analyse de la nature: 147] and Aximea [Griffith, in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834, The animal kingdom arranged by... Cuvier, 12: 103] are incorrect subsequent spellings].

  Type species:

   Arca pilosa Linnaeus, 1967 by subsequent designation (In Bouchet list as Axinaea polyderma Poli, 1795, by subsequent monotypy, Poli, 1795, Testacea utriusque Siciliae, 2: 254).
• Tuceta Röding, 1798.
• Pectunculus Lamarck, 1799 [junior homonym of Pectunculus Da Costa, 1778].
• Pseudaxinea Monterosato, 1892.
• Glycymerella Woodring, 1925.
• Veletuceta Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [202-203, 231].

  Type species:

   Pentunculus flammeus Reeve, 1843 by original designation.
• Axinola Hertlein & Grant, 1972.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

GLYCYMERIDIDAE: Glycymeris (Glycymeris) reevei (Mayer, 1868) — 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. (non Australian; records from Australia are referred to Glycymeris (Glycymeris) cotinga (Iredale, 1939))

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malaysia, Philippines.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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

Dall, W.H. 1905. Note of the name Glycymeris. Journal of Conchology 2(5): 145-146

Dall, W.H. 1912. Note of the generic name Pectunculus. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 10: 255-256

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. [149, 579]

Matsukuma, A. 1979. Glycymeridid Bivalves from Japan and adjacent areas. 1. Alphabetical list of the species allocated to the family Glycymerididae. Venus 38(2): 95-128

Matsukuma, A. 1980. Glycymeridid bivalves from Japan and adjacent areas. Part 2, Indo-Western Pacific species of Melaxinaea Iredale, 1930 (Pliocene to Recent). Acta Geologica Polonica 2 30: 199-213

Matsukuma, A. 1984. Glycymeridid Bivalves from Japan and adjacent areas. 6. Descriptions of six new species and subspecies from the Indo-Pacific region. Venus 43(4): 269-299, 4 pls

 

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)
23-Apr-2018	BIVALVIA	23-Apr-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MODIFIED	ABRS
29-Jan-2013		22-Aug-2023	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		14-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
01-Oct-2010		01-Oct-2010	MOVED
		30-Sep-2010	MODIFIED