WoRMS taxon details
Melaxinaea vitrea (Lamarck, 1819)
504530 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:504530)
accepted
Species
Melaxinaea labyrintha Iredale, 1930 · unaccepted
Melaxinaea litoralis Iredale, 1931 · unaccepted
Pectunculus angasi Crosse, 1880 · unaccepted
Pectunculus novaguineensis Angas, 1879 · unaccepted
Pectunculus vitreus Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted
marine
(of Pectunculus vitreus Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Melaxinaea vitrea (Lamarck, 1819). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504530 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Melaxinaea labyrintha Iredale, 1930) Iredale, T. (1930). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 2. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 10(1): 73-88, pl. 9 [28 August 1930]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52128623
page(s): 73, pl. 9 figs 1-4 [details]
original description (of Melaxinaea litoralis Iredale, 1931) Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes. No I. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 18(4): 201-235, pls. 22-25. [21 June 1931]., available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20220630140205/https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/17196/725_complete.pdf
page(s): 203 [details]
original description (of Pectunculus novaguineensis Angas, 1879) Angas, G. F. (1879). Descriptions of ten new species of <i>Axinaea</i> and <i>Pectunculus</i> in the collection of Mr. Sylvanus Hanley and the late Mr. T. L. Taylor. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1879 (3): 417–420, pl. 35. [published Oct. 1879]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28521539 [details]
original description (of Pectunculus vitreus Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 73, pl. 9 figs 1-4 [details]
original description (of Melaxinaea litoralis Iredale, 1931) Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes. No I. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 18(4): 201-235, pls. 22-25. [21 June 1931]., available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20220630140205/https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/17196/725_complete.pdf
page(s): 203 [details]
original description (of Pectunculus novaguineensis Angas, 1879) Angas, G. F. (1879). Descriptions of ten new species of <i>Axinaea</i> and <i>Pectunculus</i> in the collection of Mr. Sylvanus Hanley and the late Mr. T. L. Taylor. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1879 (3): 417–420, pl. 35. [published Oct. 1879]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28521539 [details]
original description (of Pectunculus vitreus Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
