Species Sunetta (Sunemeroe) vaginalis (Menke, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cytherea vaginalis Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana. Hannoverae : Libraria Aulica Hahniana pp. 1-46. [Apr. 1843]. [42].
• Cytherea excavata Hanley, S.C.T. 1843. Descriptions of four new species of bivalve shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 122-123 [123] [junior homonym; not Cytherea excavata Morton 1833].
• Sunetta aliciae Adams, S. & Angas, G.F. 1863. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii [425, pl. 37, fig. 18].

 

Generic Combinations

• Sunemeroe aliciae (Adams & Angas, 1864). —
  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] [235, fig. 260]
• Meroe excavata. —
  Sowerby, G.B. (ed.) 1854. Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2 pp. 439-899. [742, pl. 163, fig. 17 (non 16)]
• Sunetta vaginalis (Menke, 1843). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [136, pl. 66, fig. 511]
• Cuneus vaginalis (Menke, 1843). —
  Deshayes, G.P. 1853. Catalogue of the Conchifera or Bivalves Shells in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Veneridae, Cyprinidae and Glauconomidae. London : British Museum 292 pp. [45] (new combination)
• Sunetta (Sunemeroe) vaginalis (Menke, 1843). —
  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

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

To 90 m

 

General References

Fischer-Piette, E. & Fischer, P.H. 1939. Révision des éspèces vivantes de Sunetta du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Journal de Conchyliologie 83(3): 181-213 [206]

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, 728] (also on CD)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [136, pl. 66, fig. 511]

 

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
		27-Nov-2013	MODIFIED