Species Semele australis (Sowerby, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amphidesma australe Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1832. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1832: 194-202 [200].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, in crevices of coral at Lord Hood's Island (=South Marutea).
• Semele tita Dall, W.H., Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H.A. 1938. A manual of the recent and fossil marine Pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Island. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 153: 3-233, pls 1-57 [Date published July 25] [177, pl. 45, figs 1-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 484197, Keaukaha, Hilo, Hawaii.

 

Generic Combinations

• Semele australis (Sowerby, 1832). —
  Dall, W.H. 1908. Report on the dredging operations of the west coast of Central America, to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Comm. Steamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.M., commanding, XXXVIII. and Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific … etc. XV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 43: 205–487, pls 1–22 [437]
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [116, pl. 56, fig. 423]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Amphidesma australis Sowerby, 1832. —
  Reeve, L.A. 1853. Monograph of the genus Amphidesma. pls 1-7 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 8. [pl. 6, sp. 41]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Mauritius to Hawaii

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand, sand and gravel.

 

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Semele australis(G. B. Sowerby I, 1833). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507285 (Accessed on 2015-03-04)

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. [340, 697-698, CD: line 11193] (notes on species synonymy confusing needs to be clarified)

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [566, fig. 183M-N]

Rehder, H.A. 1980. The marine mollusks of Easter Island (Isla de Pascura) and Sala y Gómez. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 289: 1–167 [112-113]

 

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	TELLINOIDEA	31-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		27-Nov-2013	MODIFIED