A new species of the genus Proxichione (Bivalvia: Veneridae) from Western Australia with notes on Late Tertiary species

Abstract

Proxichione elimatula sp. nov. is described from the west and south coasts of Western Australia. Proxichione moondarae Darragh, 1965 is recorded from the Late Miocene of South Australia and Late Pliocene of Flinders Island, Tasmania. Proxichione cognata (Pritchard, 1903) is recorded from the Roe Calcarenite (Late Pliocene) of Western Australia.