Species Pisidium (Euglesa) etheridgei E.A. Smith, 1882

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pisidium etheridgei Smith, E.A. 1882. On the freshwater shells of Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 16: 255-316 [306, pl. 7, fig. 35].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1878.2.15.5, Yan-Yean Reservoir, Plenty District, Victoria.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1878.2.15.5 (4 specimens).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kuiper, J.G.J. 1983. The Sphaeriidae of Australia. Basteria 47: 3-52 [31].
• Australpera mena Iredale, T. 1943. Guide to the freshwater shells of New South Wales, Part I. Australian Naturalist 11: 85-95 [95, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C63905, Armidale, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) AM C151006 (4 specimens).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kuiper, J.G.J. 1983. The Sphaeriidae of Australia. Basteria 47: 3-52 [32].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Korniushin, A.V. 2000. Review of the Family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 41-102 [72] (Pisidium (Pisidium) casertanum is no longer on the Australian fauna list and what used to be called P. caseratum is now Pisidium (Euglesa) etheridgei)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Pisidium (Euglesa) etheridgei E.A. Smith, 1882. —
  Korniushin, A.V. 2000. Review of the Family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 41-102 [72] (subgeneric arrangement)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.

General References

Korniushin, A.V. 2000. Review of the Family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 41-102 [72]

Kuiper, J.G.J. 1983. The Sphaeriidae of Australia. Basteria 47: 3-52 [31] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Pisidium casertanum)

History of changes