Genus Placuna Lightfoot, 1786

Museums

Regional Maps

• Placuna Lightfoot, J. 1786. A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland: deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co., etc. London viii, 194 pp. + 44 pp. [16].

  Type species:

   Anomia placenta Linnaeus, 1758 (by Schmidt 1818) by subsequent designation.
• Placenta Philipsson 1788. Dissertatio historico-naturalis... In, Retzius, A.J. Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson. Dissertatio Historico-Naturalis. Lund : Berling pp. 1-4, 1-23. [author of names of taxa is Philipson].

  Type species:

   Anomia placenta Linnaeus by absolute tautonymy.
• Ephippium Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [2:166].

  Type species:

   Anomia sella Gmelin by subsequent designation, see Dall, W.H. 1898. Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the silex beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River, including in many cases a complete revision of the generic groups treated of and thier American Tertiary species. Part IV. I. Prionodesmacea: Nucula to Julia. 2. Teleodesmacea: Teredo to Ervilia. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia 3(4): 571-947, pls 23-35 [774].
• Placunema Stoliczka, F. 1870-1871. The Pelecypoda, with a review of all known genera of this class, fossil and recent. in, Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the geological survey of India. Vol. 3. Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. London : Trübner & Co. [Pts 1-4, pp. 1-222, pls I-XII, issed Sept. 1st 1870; Pts 5-8, pp. 223-409, pls XIII-XXVIII, issed Mar. 1st 1871; Pts 9-13, pp. 409-537, pls XXIX-L, issed Aug. 1st 1871] [3:451].

  Type species:

   Anomia sella Gmelin, 1791 by original designation.
• Sellaria Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38] [158].

  Type species:

   Sellaria anglicana Link, 1807 by subsequent designation, see Keen, A. M. 1959. Some type designations in Anomiacea. Minuttes of the Conchological Club Southern California 191. p. 22 [22].

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.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

General References

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. (subgeneric arrangement not recognised)

History of changes