Species Musculium (Sphaerinova) tatiarae (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaerium tatiarae Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [178, fig. 181].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D12583, Tatiara Ck, Bordertown, SA.
• Sphaerium bursa McMichael, D.F. 1961. New Species and New Records of Marine Mollusca from Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia (5): 51-57, pls 4, 5 [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D14453, River Torrens Lake, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA D14453 (1 specimen).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Korniushin, A.V. 2000. Review of the Family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 41-102 [51]

Generic Combinations

• Musculium (Sphaerinova) tatiarae (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Lake, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Common in large lakes and lagoons; also occurs in smaller lakes, waterholes and creeks.

General References

Korniushin, A.V. 2000. Review of the Family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 41-102 [51]

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