Genus Timoclea Brown, 1827

Museums

Regional Maps

• Timoclea Brown, T. 1827. Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. W.H. Lizars, Engraver, and D. Lizars, Bookseller, Edinburgh; and S. Highley, Bookseller, London. [pp. i-v systematic index; unpaginated; 52 plates] [pl. 19, fig. 11] [senior objective synonym of Pasiphae Leach [in Gray], 1852].

  Type species:

   Venus ovata Pennant, 1777 by monotypy.
• Glycydonta Cotton, B.C. 1936. A new fossil bivalve mollusc from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 503-504 [503].

  Type species:

   Venus marica Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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. [716] (also on CD)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [250]

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] [N688]

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