Species Myadora pulleinei Hedley, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myodora [sic] pulleinei Hedley, C. 1906. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31(3): 453-479, pls 36-37 [473, pl. 36, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.21207 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Capricorn Group, Masthead Island, Queensland, Australia [23°31'58.8'S, 151°45'0'E].
• Myodora [sic] pavimenta Hedley, C. 1912. Descriptions of some new or noteworthy shells in the Australian Museum. Records of the Australian Museum 8: 131-160 [132, pl. 40, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.15271 dry, soft mud, Gulf of Carpentaria, 6 mls west of Van Diemens Inlet, Queensland, Australia [16°58'1.2'S, 140°52'58.8'E]; AM C.10332 dry, Palm Islands, Queensland, Australia [18°40'1.2'S, 146°33'0'E].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Myadora pavimenta Hedley, 1912 [corrected spelling of genus name].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 37 m

 

General References

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. [787] (also on CD)

Huber, M. & Tran, B. 2010. Myadora pulleinei Hedley, 1906. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506801 (Accessed on 2015-01-15)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [218, fig. 645] (and fig. 644 as M. parvimenta)

 

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
		14-Jul-2011	MODIFIED