Notomyrtea Iredale, 1924

Glover, Emily A. & Taylor, John D., 2007, Diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves on coral reefs: Lucinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of New Caledonia and Lifou, Zoosystema 29 (1), pp. 109-181 : 118

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5392295

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5468534

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scientific name

Notomyrtea Iredale, 1924
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Genus Notomyrtea Iredale, 1924 View in CoL

Notomyrtea Iredale, 1924: 206 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIES. — Myrtea botanica Hedley, 1918 (earlier name Tellina brazieri Sowerby, 1883 preoccupied by Tellina brazieri Sowerby, 1869 ) (original designation).

DIAGNOSIS. — Small, flat-shelled, elongate ovoid to subtrigonal, longer than high. Sculpture of regularlyspaced, thin, commarginal lamellae, with irregular radial threads in interspaces.

Hinge with small teeth, left valve with two cardinals, right valve with one. Anterior adductor scar short, detached for about 1/3 of length.

REMARKS

Chavan (1969) synonymised Notomyrtea with Myrtea (type species M. spinifera (Montagu, 1803)) but the type species differ in shape, sculpture and hinge teeth. Eulopia (type species Lucina sagrinata Dall, 1886 ) from the western Atlantic has similar radial threads between the commarginal lamellae but is subcircular in shape ( Bretsky 1976: pl. 34, figs 11-13). The shell illustrated by Cotton (1961: 213, fig. 217) as Notomyrtea botanica is a different species, “ Notomyrtea ” ada (Adams & Angas, 1863). Other bivalves with the characters of the type species are known from the western Pacific but are as yet undescribed.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Lucinida

Family

Lucinidae

Loc

Notomyrtea Iredale, 1924

Glover, Emily A. & Taylor, John D. 2007
2007
Loc

Notomyrtea

IREDALE T. 1924: 206
1924
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