Species Pitar (Pitar) thornleyae Lamprell & Healy, 1997

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pitar (Pitarina) thornleyae Lamprell, K. & Healy, J.M. 1997. Pitar Römer from Australian and adjacent waters, with descriptions of four new species (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Veneridae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(1): 283-306 [298, fig. 6I-K, 10B].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C113277, Off Kurumba, SE Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Queensland [17°30'S, 140°00'-141°00'E].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Pitar (Pitar) thornleyae Lamprell & Healy, 1997. —
  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.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, mud, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

River mouths

 

General References

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. (on CD)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [252, fig. 771] (as Pitar (Pitarina) thornleyae Lamprell & Healy, 1997)

 

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	VENEROIDEA	05-Sep-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014		02-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		25-Jul-2011	MODIFIED