Family VENERIDAE Rafinesque, 1815

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Misidentifications

VENERIDAE: Irus (Irus) mitis (Deshayes, 1854) — 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. (recognises this species as restricted to Japan)

Venerupis mitis Deshayes, 1854 — Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of new species of shells in the collection of Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 21 for 1853: 1-11, pls 18-19 ["received from the printer” 27 June, 1854] [5]; Tate, R. 1887. A revision of the Recent lamellibranch and palliobranch Mollusca of South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 76-111 [90] (misidentification); May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [24] (misidentification); Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [356] (misidentification); Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [511]; 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. (recognises this species as Irus (Irus) mitis (Deshayes, 1854) restricted to Japan)

VENERIDAE: Paphia (Paphia) semirugata (Philippi, 1847) — Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [156, pl. 76, fig. 606] (misidentification; species refere to Paphia (Paphia) polita (G.B. Sowerby, 1852)); 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. (listed as an Asian species with no Australian distribution)

VENERIDAE: Paphia rotundata (Linnaeus, 1758) — Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 [165] (misidentification); 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. (treates this as Paphia (Paphia) rotundata (Linnaeus 1758) with an Indo-west Pacific distribution, and not recorded from Australia)

VENERIDAE: Petricola pseudolima Souverbie, 1862 — Souverbie, S.M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1862. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 10: 231-248, pl. 9 [231, pl. 9, fig. 1] (original combination); Hedley, C. 1923. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XIV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48: 301-316, pls 30-33 [306] (records this species with the synonym of Venerupis texta Sowerby, 1874, which is now recorded from Australia as Kyrina texta (Sowerby, 1874) according to Huber (2010))

Kyrina pseudolima (Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1862) — 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. (species has a non-Australian distribution)

VENERIDAE: Tapes alba Deshayes, 1854 — Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Descriptions of new species of shells in the collection of Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 21 for 1853: 1-11, pls 18-19 ["received from the printer” 27 June, 1854] [9] (type locality given as Swan River, WA); 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. (states that the type locality of Swan River is an error; lists Tapes alba as a snynonym of Polititapes durus (J.F. Gmelein, 1791), a West African species)

Paphia alba (Deshayes, 1853) — Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 [164] (lists this species; misidentification, species does not occur in Australian waters)

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part A) pp. xvi, 1-563. [356-361]

Bieler, R., Carter, J.G. & Coan, E.V. 2010. Classiication of Bivalve Families. pp. 113-133 in Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families; with a classiication of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184 [130]

Glover, E.A. & Taylor, J.D. 2010. Needles and pins: acicular crystalline periostracal calcification in venerid bivalves (Bivalvia: Veneridae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(2): 157-179

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [250-255]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [124-158]

Mikkelsen, P.M., Bieler, R. Kappner, I. & Rawlings, T.A. 2006. Phylogeny of Veneroidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) based on morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 439–521

Mikkelsen, P.M. & Bieler, R. 2008. Seashells of southern Florida. Living marine mollusks of the Florida keys and adjacent regions. Princeton & Oxford : Princeton University Press 503 pp. [300-321]

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] [N670-N690]

Sartori, A.F., C. Printrakoon, P.M. Mikkelsen & R. Bieler 2008. Siphonal structure in the Veneridae (Bivalvia: Heterodonta) with an assessment of its phylogenetic application and a review of venerids of the Gulf of Thailand. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 18: 103-125

Taylor, J.D., Williams, S.T., Glover, E.A. & Dyal, P. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes. Zoologica Scripta 36(6): 587-606

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