Species Tucetona pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arca pectunculus Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [695].
• Cardium amboinensis Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3255].
• Tucetona amboinensis extra Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [302, pl. 4, fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.62473 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Low Islands, Queensland, Australia [16°22‘58.8‘S 145°34‘1.2‘E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huber, M. 2010. 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. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [155, text fig.] (Huber also lists the additional synonyms Pectunculus subauritus Lamarck, 1801; Pectunculus pectiniformis Lamarck, 1819)

 

Generic Combinations

• Tucetona (Tucetopsis) amboinensis (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [165]
• Tucetona amboinensis (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [250-251]
• Glycymeris (Tucetona) pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1985. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Part 12. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 22: 47-67 [64]
• Tucetona pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 4, fig. 20]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-West Pacific. Coral Sea record from Australian Museum Sydney collection

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

 

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [250, pl. 30 , fig. 4] (as T. amboinensis; illustration, description, distribution)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1985. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Part 12. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 22: 47-67 [64, fig. 39] (synonymy, illustration, description, distribution)

Dance, S.P. (ed) 1995. Seashells of Eastern Arabia. Dubai : Motivate Publishing 296 pp. [213, fig. 939] (as G. pectunculus; illustration, description, distribution, habitat)

Dharma, B. 1992. Indonesian Shells. Jakarta : Verlag Christa Hemmen Vol. 2 135 pp. [80, pl. 18, fig. 8] (illustration, description, habitat)

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [165, pl. 49, fig. 20] (as T. (Tucetopsis) amboinensis; illustration, description, distribution)

Hedley, C. 1909. Mollusca from the Hope Islands, north Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34(1): 420–466, pls 36–44 [423]

Huber, M. 2010. 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. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [155, text fig.]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 4, fig. 20] (illustration, description, distribution, habitat)

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [43, pl. 4]

Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [166, pl. 23, fig. 2] (as T. amboinensis extra; illustration, description, distribution, habitat)

Wye, K.R. 1991. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Shells. Leichardt, NSW, Australia : Sandstone Books 288 pp. [243, text fig.] (illustration, description, distribution, habitat)

 

Common Name References

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [38, pl. 39C] (Comb Bittersweet Clam)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
29-Jan-2013		29-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		14-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
01-Oct-2010		01-Oct-2010	MOVED
		30-Sep-2010	MODIFIED