Species Pinna deltodes Menke, 1843

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pinna deltodes Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana. Hannoverae : Libraria Aulica Hahniana pp. 1-46. [Apr. 1843]. [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH (presumed lost from BMNH. The specimen figured in Reeve (1885, pl. 21, fig. 40) was selected (Rosewater, 1961:199) to be or represent Menke's species), Victoria River.
• Pinna scapula Hedley, C. 1924. A Revision of the Australian Pinnidae. Records of the Australian Museum 14: 141-153 [148, pl.19, figs 6,7].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.19427 dry, Port Darwin, NT, Australia [12°28‘1.2‘S, 130°49‘58.8‘E].
• Exitopinna deltodes ultra 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 [315] [figured in Rosewater (1961: pl. 150)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.62035 dry, Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef, QLD [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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Atrina deltodes (Menke, 1843). —
  Hedley, C. 1924. A Revision of the Australian Pinnidae. Records of the Australian Museum 14: 141-153 [150]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific east to Lord Howe Island

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 140 m. May be found under rocks/boulders or embedded in sediment amound cobbles

 

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. [69, text fig. 64, 7]

Hedley, C. 1924. A Revision of the Australian Pinnidae. Records of the Australian Museum 14: 141-153 [148, pl. 20, figs. 6, 7] (as P. scapula; p. 150 as P. deltodes)

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.

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 [315, pl. 4, fig. 17] (as Exitopinna deltodes ultra)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [14, pl. 5, fig. 28]

Reeve, L.A. 1858. Monograph of the genus Pinna. pls 2-32 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 11.

Rosewater, J. 1961. The family Pinnidae in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(4): 175-226 [196] (synonymised with P. bicolor)

Scheltema, A. 1983. Pinna deltodes Menke newly described and differentiated from P. bicolor Gmelin (Bivalvia, Pterioida). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 6: 37-52

Slack-Smith, S.M. & Bryce, C.W. 2004. A survey of the benthic molluscs of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 66: 221-245 [223-236]

 

Common Name 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. [69, text fig. 64, 7] (Scapula Razor Shell)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [p.40, pl.41A] (Deltoid Razor 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)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	PINNOIDEA	19-Sep-2012	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		17-Nov-2010	MODIFIED