Genus Mysella Angas, 1877

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• Mysella Angas, G.F. 1877. Description of one genus and twenty-five species of marine shells from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 171-177, pl. 26, figs 26, 27 [176].

  Type species:

   Mysella anomala Angas, 1877 by monotypy.
• Virmysella Iredale, T. 1930. More notes on the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 17(9): 384-407 [Date published 27 June] [394].

  Type species:

   Virmysella spernax Iredale, 1930 by monotypy.
• Calvitium Laseron, C. 1953. Minute bivalves from New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 33-54 [46].

  Type species:

   Calvitium glabra Laseron, 1953 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian and Pacific Oceans

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Macquarie Island Province (24), 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)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [237]

Gofas, S. & Salas, C. 2008. A review of European 'Mysella' species (Bivalvia, Montacutidae), with description of Kurtiella new genus. Journal of Molluscan Studies 74(2): 119 - 135 (important paper regarding the split of European taxa previously assigned to Mysella from the Australian genus in a strict sense)

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]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [160]

Laseron, C. 1956. A Revision of the New South Wales Leptonidae. Mollusca: Pelecypoda. Records of the Australian Museum 24(2): 7-21, text-figs 1-27 [17-18] (as part of Laseron's revision Virmysella spernax was transferred to Mysella with leads to Virmysella becoming a synonym of Mysella)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [336]

Middelfart, P. 2002. A revision of the Australian Condylocardiinae (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae). Molluscan Research 22: 23-85 [80]

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] [N531]

Passos, F. & Domaneschi, O. 2009. The anatomical characters related to the brooding behavior of two Antarctic species of Mysella Angas, 1877 (Bivalvia, Galeommatoidea, Lasaeidae), with direct and indirect evidences of ovoviviparity. Polar Biology 32(2): 271-280

 

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)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	GALEOMMATOIDEA	12-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		29-Apr-2011	MODIFIED