Genus Tucetona Iredale, 1931

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tucetona Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [202] (Bouchet list has: Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29. Scientific Reports, 5(6): 301) [not available (no diagnosis) from Iredale, 1931, Records of the Australian Museum, 18(4): 202, 231].

  Type species:

   Pectunculus flabellatus Tenison-Woods, 1878 by original designation.
• Grandaxinaea Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [202, 231] [not available (no description) from Iredale, 1931, Records of the Australian Museum, 18(4): 202-203, 231; nor from Allan, 1950, Australian shells: 251].

  Type species:

   Glycymeris magnificens Iredale, 1929 by original designation.
• Tucetopsis 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 [302].

  Type species:

   Cardium amboinensis Gmelin, 1791 by original designation.
• Bellaxinea Nicol & Jones, 1984.

 

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, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific, Atlantic

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1985. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Part 12. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 22: 47-67 [64]

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. [149, 583]

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 [301] (type species, desciption)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 3]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [280]

Matsukuma, A. 1984. Glycymeridid Bivalves from Japan and adjacent areas. 6. Descriptions of six new species and subspecies from the Indo-Pacific region. Venus 43(4): 269-299, 4 pls [280] (type information; claims type species selected by original designation)

Nicol, D. 1945. Genera and Subgenera of the pelecypod family Glycymerididae. Journal of Paleontology 19: 616-621 [620] (synonymy, type species, authors, discussion of status)

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [43] (as subgenus of genus Glycymeris)

 

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)
29-Jan-2013		29-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		14-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
01-Oct-2010		01-Oct-2010	MOVED
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