Subgenus Sunetta (Sunemeroe) Iredale, 1930

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sunemeroe Iredale, T. 1930. More notes on the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 17(9): 384-407 [Date published 27 June] [395, 407] [Iredale noticed that Sunettina Jousseaume, 1891, was a junior homonym of Sunettina Pfeiffer, 1869, but he did not explicitly establish Sunemeroe as a nom. nov., instead fixing an Australian species as type].

  Type species:

   Sunetta adelinae Angas, 1868 by original designation.
• Sunettina Jousseaume, F. 1891. Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux. Le Naturaliste Series 2 Vol. 5 (Annee 1891): 208, 222 [208] [junior homonym; not Sunettina Pfeiffer, 1869].
• Cyclosunetta Fischer-Piette, E. 1939. Sur quelques espèces de Sunatta (Veneridae) et sur les divisions de ce genre. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 11: 142-146 [146] [replacement name; new name for Sunettina Jousseaume, 1891].

  Type species:

   Sunetta sunettina Jousseaume, 1891 by original designation (by typification of replaced name;).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), 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. [727] (also on CD)

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] [N673] (as subgenus of )

Vokes, H.E. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: A Systematic and Bibliographic Catalogue (revised and updated). New York : Paleontological Research Institution 307 pp. [250]

 

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	VENEROIDEA	31-Aug-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014		29-Jul-2011	MODIFIED
		20-Jan-2012	MODIFIED