Species Varotoga cryptozoica (Hedley, 1917)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Solecardia cryptozoica Hedley, C. 1917. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XIII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 680–719 [684, pl. 51, fig. 40, pl. 46, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.47757, Middle Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales [33°48'7.2"S, 151°13'58.8"E].

Generic Combinations

• Varotoga cryptozoica (Hedley, 1917). —
  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 [20]
• Scintillona cryptozoica (Hedley, 1917). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [152]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

In mud, intertidal, under stones.

Extra Ecological Information

Sheltered areas, under stones in mud; also in the burrows of crab Pilumnopeus serratifrons

Notes

According to Huber (2015:481), Varotoga anomala and Varotoga cryptozoica are morphologically similar, but live in biogeographically distinct areas, with V. cryptozoica extending from Moreton Bay to colder Tasmanian waters, whereas V. anomala is a tropical species from Aden to Rodrigues Island to Borneo and the Philippines.
Hence V. cryptozoica has been removed as an Australian species.

General References

Allan, J. 1962. Australian Shells, with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on land. Melbourne : Georgian House Rev. ed., 487 pp.

Healy, J.M. & Potter, D.G. 2010. A preliminary checklist of the marine bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 54(3): 235-252 [245]

Huber, M. 2015. Compendium of Bivalves 2. A full-color guide to the remaining seven families. A systematic listing of 8,500 bivalve species and 10,500 synonyms. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 907 pp, 1 CD-ROM. [Date published May: Markus Huber, Annioe Langleit &​ Kurt Kreipl: TELLINIDAE; Markus Huber: all other parts] [475, 481; on CD]

May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. [Date published 31 July 1923]

May, W.L. & Macpherson, J.H. 1958. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells revised by J. Hope Macpherson. Hobart : Government Printer 54 pp.

Morton, B. 2008. The biology of sympatric species of Scintillona (Bivalvia: Galeommatoidea) commensal with Pilumnopeus serratifrons (Crustacea: Decapoda) in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, with a description of a new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 54(1): 323-338 [325-326, 330-334] (as Scintillona)

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