Melliteryx Iredale 1924
Authors/Creators
- 1. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2259 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
- 2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X 3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
- 3. Sea Change Trust, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa & Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X 1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa
- 4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, 1900 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Description
Melliteryx Iredale, 1924
Melliteryx Iredale, 1924. Type species (original designation): Erycina acupuncta Hedley, 1902. Recent, Australia.
Description.
Shell subtrigonal, moderately inflated, subequilateral, equivalve; umbos narrow; sculpture of commarginal ribs, striae, or growth checks, with micro-pits in some; periostracum thick, tan, adherent, shiny to silky; hinge plate narrow; both valves with anterior and posterior lateral teeth; left valve with small central pseudocardinal directly below umbos, conjoined with anterior lateral tooth in some; right valve with small thickening near umbos; ligament internal, in elongate resilifer.
Discussion.
The type species of the genus, Erycina acupuncta Hedley, 1902, was described from off New South Wales, Australia. Huber (2015) documents five additional species, including three from South Africa, one from the Indo-Pacific and one from New Zealand. See Discussion section below for additional comments on Melliteryx.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Iredale
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Galeommatida
- Family
- Lasaeidae
- Genus
- Melliteryx
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melliteryx Iredale, 1924 sec. Valentich-Scott, Griffiths, Landschoff, Li & Li, 2024
References
- Iredale T (1924) Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 179 - 278.
- Hedley C (1902) Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H. M. C. S. " Thetis, " off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Part 2: Mollusca. Part I. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. Australian Museum Memoir 4 (5): 287 - 324. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1967.4. 1902.1501
- Huber M (2015) Compendium of bivalves 2. Hackenheim, Germany (ConchBooks), 907 pp.