Species Spengleria mytiloides (Lamarck, 1818)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gastrochaena mytiloides 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. [447].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ile de France near Mauritius, Indian Ocean.
• Gastrochaena plicatilis Deshayes, G.P. 1855 [imprint 1854]. Descriptions of new shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 22 for 1854: 317-371 [Date published May 1855] [329].

 

Generic Combinations

• Spengleria mytiloides (Lamarck, 1818).
• Spengleria plicatilis (Deshayes, 1854).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-West Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Borer, coral reef, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

In dead corals

 

General References

Boss, K.J. 1967. On the evolution of Spengleria (Gastrochaenidae: Bivalvia). American Malacological Union, Annual Report 1967: 15-17 [16]

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. [673] (synonymy)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [196]

Nielsen, C. 1986. Fauna associated with the coral Porites from Phuket, Thailand. Part 1: Bivalves, with description of a new species of Gastrochaena. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 42: 1-24 [9, figs 4A, 5A] (as S. plicatilis)

Taki, I. & Habe, T. 1955. Gastrochaenidae, Vesicomyidae. pp. 1-5 in Kuroda, T. (ed). Illustrated Catalogue of Japanese Shells. Tokyo : Unknown publisher Vol. 2. [5]

 

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	MYIDA	28-Jul-2014	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014	MYIDA	14-Oct-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		09-Mar-2011	MODIFIED