Species Tapes conspersus (Gmelin, 1791)
The Tapestry Shell/Turgid Tapes
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Venus litterata conspersa Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3293].
- Paphia guttulata Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [175].
Type data:
Holotype AM C 15720, Sydney Harbour, NSW.- Tapes watlingi Iredale, T. 1958. Some molluscan name changes. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1956-57: 103-104 [104].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.15720 dry, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'0'S, 151°13'58.8'E].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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. (see CD for additional synonym and misidentification)
Generic Combinations
- Tapes dorsatus (Lamarck, 1818). —
Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [150, pl. 73, fig. 582]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific from India to Japan
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Intertidal, marine, sand, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Burried in loose sandy mud
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. [420, 740] (also 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 [23] (as Tapes watlingi)
Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [150, pl. 73, fig. 582]
Matsukuma, A. 1986. Studies on the Kawamura collection (Mollusca) in the National Science Museum, Tokyo-III. Genus Tapes Megerle, 1811, with description of a new species. Venus 1 45(1): 11-30 [16-18]
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. [333] (refers to synonym Tapes turgida) (The Tapestry Shell/Turgid Tapes)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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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 | 10-Oct-2011 | MOVED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) |
11-Aug-2014 | 04-Aug-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
25-Jul-2011 | MODIFIED |