Genus Cuspidaria Nardo, 1840

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• Cuspidaria Nardo, G.D. 1840. Sopra un nuovo genere di conchiglie del mare Adriatico. Atti Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani 1: 175 [175] [Atti della prima riunione degli scienziati italiani tenuta in Pisa: 202; Cuspidaria typus is a substitute name for Tellina cuspidata Olivi, 1792. The second species originally included in Cuspidaria by Nardo, Cuspidaria radiata, was a nomen nudum. Cuspidaria is also established in Nardo, 1840, Annali delle Scienze del Regno Lombardo-Veneto, 10: 49. In that paper, also Cuspidaria radiata is described. We have not ascertained the relative timing of publication of Nardo's two 1840 papers, but we have assumed that the proceedings of the Pisa meeting were published before the full paper in the Annals].

  Type species:

   Cuspidaria typus Nardo, 1840 (= Tellina cuspidata Olivi, 1792) by monotypy.
• Neaera Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. 1833. The Mollusca and Radiata. pp. 1–192 in Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. (ed.). The Animal Kingdom. London : Whittaker & Co. Vol. 12 601 pp. 40 pls. [junior homonym; Gray ms, not Neaera Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [Diptera]].
• Aulacophora Jeffreys, J.G. 1882. On the Mollusca procured during the 'Lightning' and 'Porcupine' expeditions, 1868-70 (part IV). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 922-952, pls LXX-LXXI [940] [junior homonym; not Aulacophora Dejean, 1835 [Coleoptera]].

  Type species:

   Neaera lamellosa M. Sars, 1858 by subsequent designation (Keen, 1969, [in Moore, ed.] Treatise on Invertrebrate Paleontology, N2: 854).
• Vulcanomya Dall, 1886 [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 12(6): 299].

  Type species:

   Vulcanomya smithii Dall, 1886 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Province (12), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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

Allen, J.A. & Morgan, R.E. 1981. The functional morphology of the Atlantic deep water species of the families Cuspidariidae and Poromyidae (Bivalvia): an analysis of the evolution of the septibranch condition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 294(1073): 413-546

Harper, E.M., Dreyer, H. & Steiner, G. 2006. Reconstructing the Anomalodesmata (Mollusca: Bivalvia): morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(3): 395-420 (included in analysis)

Healy, J.M., Rüdiger, B. & Mikkelsen, P.M 2008. Spermatozoa of the Anomalodesmata (Bivalvia, Mollusca) with special reference to relationships within the group. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 89(4): 339-350 (group included)

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. [791] (also on CD. Has several questionable synonyms of which some types are included here under)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [228]

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] [N854, fig. E29, no. 5]

Plazzi, F. & M. Passamontia 2010. Towards a molecular phylogeny of Mollusks: Bivalves' early evolution as revealed by mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57(2): 641-657 (included in analysis)

Yonge, C.M. 1928. Structure and function of the organs of feeding and digestion in the septibranchs Cuspidaria and Poromya. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 216(434): 221-263, pls 12-14

 

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	PHOLADOMYIDA	16-Aug-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		16-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		18-Jul-2011	MODIFIED