MolluscaBase taxon details
Corbula smithiana Brazier, 1880
505837 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505837)
accepted
Species
Corbula coxi Pilsbry, 1897 · unaccepted
Corbula flindersi Cotton, 1930 · unaccepted
Corbula venusta Angas, 1871 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Corbula venusta Gould, 1861; Corbula smithiana is a replacement name
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Brazier, J. (1880). Synonymy of, and remarks upon Port Jackson, New Caledonian and other shells, with their distribution. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 4: 388-392., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6406568
page(s): 388 [details]
page(s): 388 [details]
Homonymy nom nov. pro Corbula venusta Angas, 1871 nec Gould, 1861
Homonymy nom nov. pro Corbula venusta Angas, 1871 nec Gould, 1861 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Corbula smithiana Brazier, 1880. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505837 on 2025-09-11
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original description
Brazier, J. (1880). Synonymy of, and remarks upon Port Jackson, New Caledonian and other shells, with their distribution. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 4: 388-392., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6406568
page(s): 388 [details]
original description (of Corbula coxi Pilsbry, 1897) Pilsbry, H. A. (1897). New Australian mollusks. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 49: 360-364, pl. 9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26284507
page(s): 363 [details]
original description (of Corbula flindersi Cotton, 1930) Cotton, B. C. (1930). Pelecypoda of the "Flindersian" region, Souther Australia. N° 1. <em>Records of the South Australian Museum.</em> 4(2): 223-240., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41026424 [details]
original description (of Corbula venusta Angas, 1871) Angas, G. F. (1871). Description of thirty-four new species of shells from Australia. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1871): 13-21, pl. 1., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28553803 [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]
additional source Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. <em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria.</em> 83: 37-206.
page(s): 182 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 388 [details]
original description (of Corbula coxi Pilsbry, 1897) Pilsbry, H. A. (1897). New Australian mollusks. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 49: 360-364, pl. 9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26284507
page(s): 363 [details]
original description (of Corbula flindersi Cotton, 1930) Cotton, B. C. (1930). Pelecypoda of the "Flindersian" region, Souther Australia. N° 1. <em>Records of the South Australian Museum.</em> 4(2): 223-240., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41026424 [details]
original description (of Corbula venusta Angas, 1871) Angas, G. F. (1871). Description of thirty-four new species of shells from Australia. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1871): 13-21, pl. 1., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28553803 [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]
additional source Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. <em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria.</em> 83: 37-206.
page(s): 182 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Homonymy nom nov. pro Corbula venusta Angas, 1871 nec Gould, 1861 [details]
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Corbula coxi. Pilsbry, 1897. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 49: 363-364, pl. 9, figs. 1, 2, 3 - catalog no. 51132) (from synonym Corbula coxi Pilsbry, 1897)
To Malacopics (Corbula smithiana Brazier, 1880 Australia, Victoria, Port Welshpool, at low tide, intertidal zone, on sand, collected 1992-12-13, ex coll. H.H.M. Vermeij .)
To Malacopics (Corbula smithiana Brazier, 1880 Australia, Victoria, Port Welshpool, at low tide, intertidal zone, on sand, collected 1992-12-13, ex coll. H.H.M. Vermeij .)
