Species Sunetta (Sunemeroe) sunettina (Jousseaume, 1891)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sunettina sunettina Jousseaume, F. 1891. Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux. Le Naturaliste Series 2 Vol. 5 (Annee 1891): 208, 222 [208] [Publication date: Sept. 1, 1891].
• Sunetta contempta Smith, E.A. 1891. On a collection of marine shells from Aden, with some remarks upon the relationship of the Molluscan fauna of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891(3): 390–436 [422] [replacement name; for Meroe menstrualis Reeve, 1864 not Menke 1843].

 

Generic Combinations

• Sunetta (Sunemeroe) sunettina (Jousseaume, 1891). —
  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. [395]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea and Indian Ocean

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand.

 

General References

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [511]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [136, pl. 66, fig. 510] (as Sunetta contempta Smith, 1891)

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [184] (placed in subgenus Cyclosunsetta Fischer-Piette, 1939)

 

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	01-Sep-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014		31-Aug-2011	MOVED
11-Aug-2014		29-Jul-2011	MODIFIED
		25-Jul-2011	MODIFIED