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1 December 2009 |
Mussel of the Month
The December 2009 Mussel of the Month is Tamsiella tamsiana. Tamsiella is a genus of two Neotropical species: one from the Orinoco and one from the Upper Amazon.
ZMB 101899. Rio Chirgua, 12 mi SW Pto Cabello, Venezuela.
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Almost nothing is known about the genus Tamsiella. A Google web search merely provides links to taxonomic databases, and Google Scolar returns only four hits! The genus is represented by two species: T. tamsiana in the Orinico Basin and T. amazonica in the upper Amazon. |
Classification:
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Subclass Palaeoheterodonta
Order Unionoida
Superfamily ETHERIOIDEA Deshayes, 1830
Family MYCETOPODIDAE Gray, 1840
Subfamily MONOCONDYLAEINAE Modell, 1942
Genus Tamsiella Haas, 1931
Species Tamsiella tamsiana (Dunker, 1858) |
For more information about the Tamsiana, check out:
- Cummings, K.S. Freshwater Mussel (Unionoida) Genera of the World.
- Haas, F. 1931. Versuch einer kritischen Sichtung der südamerikanischen Najaden, hauptsächlich an Hand der Sammlung des Senckenberg-Museums III. Senckenbergiana 13(2):87-110.
- Bonetto, A.A. 1972. A new species of Monocondylaeinae from the Amazon Basin, and some considerations on this subfamily in the hydrographic systems of South America. Amazoniana. Limnologia et Oecologia Regionalis Systemae Fluminis Amazonas 3(2):224-230.
- Simone, L.R.L. 2006. Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil: An Illustrated Inventory of the Brazilian Malacofauna, Including Neighboring Regions of South America, Respect to the Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems. EGB, Fapesp., Sao Paulo 390 pp.
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