WoRMS taxon details

Cunanax compressa (Hedley & May, 1908)

505026  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505026)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Archiheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Carditida (Order)
  9. Carditoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Carditidae (Family)
  11. Cuninae (Subfamily)
  12. Cunanax (Genus)
  13. Cunanax compressa (Species)
accepted
Species
Cuna compressa Hedley & May, 1908 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cuna compressa Hedley & May, 1908) Hedley, C.; May, W. L. (1908). Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania. <em>Records of the Australia Museum.</em> 7(2): 108-125; plates 22-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8055917
page(s): 124, pl. 24, figs 29-31 [details] 
Type locality contained in Australian part of the Tasman Sea  
type locality contained in Australian part of the Tasman Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cunanax compressa (Hedley & May, 1908). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505026 on 2025-07-11
Date
action
by
2010-08-18 08:38:17Z
created
Tran, Bastien
2010-09-15 11:43:10Z
checked
Huber, Markus
2023-12-13 21:22:43Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cuna compressa Hedley & May, 1908) Hedley, C.; May, W. L. (1908). Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania. <em>Records of the Australia Museum.</em> 7(2): 108-125; plates 22-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8055917
page(s): 124, pl. 24, figs 29-31 [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] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Cuna compressa Hedley & May, 1908)

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