Species Spisula trigonella (Lamarck, 1819)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mactra trigonella 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. [479].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, La baie es chiens marins (Shark Bay).
• Gnathodon parvum Petit, de la Saussaye, M.S. 1853. Description de coquilles nouvelles (G. Gnathodon et Mactra). Journal de Conchyliologie 4: 357-360 [358, pl. 13, figs 9-10].
• Mactra corbuloides Reeve, L.A. 1854. Monograph of the genus Mactra. pls 1-21 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 8. [pl. 19, fig. 103].
• Mactra rostrata Reeve, L.A. 1854. Monograph of the genus Mactra. pls 1-21 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 8. [pl. 19, fig. 104] [non Spengler 1802].
• Spisula cretacea Angas, G.F. 1867. On a new genus and some new species of marine Mollusca from Port Jackson, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 908-935, pl. 44 [909, pl. 44, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Stephens, NSW.
• Spisula producta Angas, G.F. 1867. On a new genus and some new species of marine Mollusca from Port Jackson, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 908-935, pl. 44 [909, pl. 44, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Johnson Bay & Parramatta River, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Mactra fluviatilis Angas, G.F. 1871. Descriptions of thirty-four new species of shells from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 13–20 [12 June 1871] [20, pl. 1, fig. 31].
• Spisula (Notospisula) colganae Healy & Lamprell, 1992.

 

Generic Combinations

• Hemimactra cretacea (Angas, 1867) [new combination]. —
  Tate, R. 1891. A second supplement to a list of the lamellibranch and palliobranch Mollusca of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 265-269 [266]
• Notospisula parva producta (Angas, 1867). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [26]
• Spisula (Notospisula) trigonella (Lamarck, 1819). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [82, pl. 39]
• Spisula trigonella (Lamarck, 1819). —
  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.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, filter-feeder, intertidal, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

Inhabits wide range of sedimentary habitats; brackish water in sandy mud

 

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Spisula trigonella (Lamarck, 1818). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505773 (Accessed on 2017-06-01)

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. [448, 758, on CD]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [26]

Jones, A.R., Murray, A. & Skilleter, G.A. 1988. Aspects of the life history and population biology of Notospisula trigonella (Bivalvia: Mactridae) from the Hawkesbury Estuary, Southeastern Australia. Veliger 30: 267-277 [267]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [82, pl. 39, fig. 266]

Macpherson, J.H. 1966. Port Phillip Survey 1957–1963. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 27: 201–288 [235]

Wilson, B.R. & Kendrick, G.W. 1968. The recent appearance of Notospisula trigonella (Lamarck) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Mactridae) in the Swan Estuary. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 1(11): 25-31 [28]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [350] (Little Trough Shell Or Triangular Cockle)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [66, pl. 67F] (Trigonal Mactra)

 

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	MACTROIDEA	04-Jul-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		27-Nov-2013	MODIFIED