Genus Tegillarca Iredale, 1939

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anomalocardia Mörch, O.A.L. 1853. Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra et Gadea, Comes de Yoldi, regis Daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis Danebrogici in prima classe et ordinis tertii eques. Fasciculus Secundus. Acephala, Annulata Cirripeda, Echinodermata. Hafniae : Ludovici Kleini Vol. 2 74 pp. + 2 unnumbered pages. [Date published April] [41] [junior homonym; name attributed by Mörch to Klein; Neave, 1939, Nomenclator Zoologicus, 1: 211, has an entry for "Anomalocardia Adams [= H. & A. Adams], 1857", The genera of Recent Mollusca, 2: 535, who also attributed the name to Klein and included Arca granosa Linnaeus among many others. Invalid: junior homonym of Anomalocardia Schumacher, 1817].

  Type species:

   Arca granosa Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Tegillarca Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [281].

  Type species:

   Tegillarca granosa bessalis Iredale, 1939 by original designation.

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.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), 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. [573]

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