Catalogue of Australian Tertiary Mollusca (except chitons)

Abstract

The object of this catalogue is to list all species of mollusca (except chitons) which have been described from Australian Tertiary marine strata. The chitons have been excluded as they have already been listed by Cotton and Godfrey ( 1940) and again by Cotton (1964) though not in the same format as the listing in this catalogue. Initally it was hoped to provide a proper checklist but it was obvious that insufficient is known of the relationships of many of the species so that much of the value of a checklist was missing. However, this catalogue can serve as a basis for future work on a proper checklist, and for this reason it has been pub lished so that the information is available to any interested worker. Entries are in alphabetical order of species. The specific name is cited first followed by the generic name and the combination is that given in the original description. On the right hand side of the page the genus is given in which it is thought the species should be placed. In some cases these modern generic allocations have been taken from the literature and in others have been made by the author. Many of them are no doubt as correct as is possible on our current knowledge of the taxonomy of Australian Recent and Tertiary mollusca but many will be far from correct and it is hoped that this catalogue will stimulate workers to bring the nomenclature up to date. The author will therefore appreciate the communication of any corrections, additions and/or alterations which they consider should be made. In the second line of the entry the author, date and reference to the original description is given followed by the type locality of the species. Further information on type localities can be found in Singleton (1941) which also has an extensive bibliography of the Australian Tertiary. For information subsequent to this date the reference to the original description of the species will probably suffice, complemented by the Lexique Stratigraphique 6 (5c) Victoria and the Geology of Victoria published by the Geological Society of Australia. The references (which virtually make up a bibliography of Australian Tertiary mollusca) have been divided into two parts, the first consisting of references dealing with genera, revisions of groups and types but which do not have new specific names therein and a second part of references cited in the catalogue itself.