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

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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.

KEYWORDS: new taxon, Murray Basin, Bass Basin.

Author(s) Thomas A. Darragh
Volume
Records 25 : Part 4
Article Published
2010
Page Number
369

DOI
10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(4).2010.369-377