Genus Solemya Lamarck, 1818

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• Solemya Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [488].

  Type species:

   Solemya mediterranea Lamarck, 1818 by subsequent designation, see Children, J.G. 1823. Lamarck's genera of shells, translated from French. Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts 15: 216-258 (= as Solenomya mediterranea Lamarck, 1818 = Tellina togata Poli, 1791).

  Secondary source:

   Vokes, H.E. 1955. Notes on Tertiary and Recent Solemyacidae. Journal of Paleontology 29: 534-545 [534]; Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N242].
• Solenimya Bowdich, T.E. 1822. Elements of Conchology, including the fossil genera and animals. Pt. 2. Paris : Smith illustrated pp. [8] [error for Solemya Lamarck, 1818].
• Solenomya Children, J.G. 1823. Lamarck's genera of shells (with plates), continued. Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts 14(28, art 5): 298-322 [300] [incorrect subsequent spelling for Solemya Lamarck, 1818, name not available].
• Stephanopus Scacchi, A. 1833. Osservazioni Zoologische. Napoli Vol. 1+2 27 pp. [5].

  Type species:

   Solenomya mediterranea Lamarck, 1818 by original designation.
• Solenymia Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [366] [incorrect subsequent spelling for Solemya Lamarck, 1818, name not available].
• Solenymya Schaufuss, L.W. 1869. Molluscorum Systema et Catalogus. System und Aufzählung sämmtlicher Conchylien der Sammlung von Fr. Paetel. Dresden : O. Weiske pp. i-xiv, 1-119. [21] [incorrect subsequent spelling for Solenymia Swainson, 1840, name not available].

 

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. [on CD]

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N243]
• Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [42]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Gulf of Oman, Japan, Mozambique, North Korea, South Korea, Yellow Sea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

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. [525-526]

Taylor, J.D., Glover, E.A. & Williams, S.T. 2008. Ancient chemosynthetic bivalves: systematics of Solemyidae from eastern and southern Australia (Mollusca: Bivalvia). pp. 75–104 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. (eds). Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(1) [80-81]

 

History of changes

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