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Electroma papilionacea (Lamarck, 1819)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Bivalvia - bivalves »  order Ostreida »  family Pteriidae - pearl oysters »  genus Electroma

Scientific synonyms

Avicula papilionacea Lamarck, 1819 o
Electroma georgiana (J. R. C. Quoy & J. P. Gaimard, 1835)
Electroma punctulata Reeve, 1857
Electroma virens (Lamarck, 1819)

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Electroma papilionacea

Author: Jan Delsing

Electroma papilionacea

Author: Jan Delsing

Electroma papilionacea

Author: Cotton, B.

Electroma papilionacea

Author: Cotton, B.

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Description

Electroma georgiana: "Butterfly Shells." Moderately convex, transparent, smooth, thin; varying in colour, pillucid white, or shades of brown or green, with or without coloured rays of spots. Length 40 mm., height 26 mm., section 12 mm. Type locality: King George Sound.
LOG. : Very genera] and rather common, all around the South Australian coast and westward to Fremantle, beach and dredged to 104 fathoms. S.W.A., S.A., Tas., Vict,, N.S.W.
Remarks: A variable featureless species, but attractive withal. The shells are very light in weight, and the spray often deposits them a little above the regular high tide mark.
Cotton, B.C., 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda.
Electroma virens: Obliquely ovate, slightly sinuated posteriorly, horny, rather stout, smooth; bright olive-green, rayed throughout with minute opaque white dots. Length 17 mm., height 17 mm., section 7.5 mm. Type locality: Gulf St. Vincent.
Loc.: Not common, Port Willunga, Royston Head, Fowler Bay; King Island. S.W.A., S.A., Tas., Vict. Remarks: Slightly more globose than E. georgiana. Approaching Pterelectroma Iredale 1939.
Cotton, B.C., 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Electroma papilionacea (Lamarck, 1819)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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