Species Pteria gregata (Reeve, 1857)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Avicula gregata Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [pl. 16, fig. 63].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Tutuilla, Samoa Islands.
• Avicula libella Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [pl. 17, fig. 69].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, "China Seas".
• Avicula loveni Dunker, W. 1879. Mollusca quaedam nova. Journal de Conchyliologie 27: 212-217, pl. 9.
• Pteria sibogae Prashad, B. 1932. The Lamellibranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Systematic Part 2. Pelecypoda. Siboga-Expéditie Report 118(34): 1-353, pls 1-9, 1 map.
• Pteria howensis Lamprell, K.L. & Healy, J.M. 1997. New species of Pteriidae, Pinnidae, Veneridae, Euciroidae and Corbulidae from Australia (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Veneroida). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(1): 271-281 [271].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.380388, Lord Howe Island, off Ball's Pyramid, NSW [31°45‘0‘S 159°15‘0‘E].

 

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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pteria gregata (Reeve, 1857).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Byssally attached to whip corals

 

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. [599; CD-ROM lines 4306-4311]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [98, figs 236-237] (as Pteria sibogae Prashad, 1932; 98 as Pteria howensis Lamprell & Healy, 1997 (author and date incorrectly cited as 1977 - corrected by H. Barlow Jan, 2003))

 

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)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
	PTERIOIDEA	02-Apr-2013	ADDED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)