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Species Antigona reticulata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ara-nunome, Reticulated Venus Shell


Compiler and date details

June 2017 - Burghardt, I.

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaii


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, continental shelf, coral reef, intertidal, intertidal flats, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Deeply burried in sediment

 

General References

Fischer-Piette, E. 1968. Contribution a la connaissance des Veneridae du Mozambique. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 40(4): 784-796 [785]

Fischer-Piette, E. 1973. Sur des Veneridae de l'Ocean Indien Occidental (Mollusca, Pelecypoda). Téthys 5(2-3): 267-316 [269]

Fischer-Piette, E. 1976. Les Veneridae indeterminees das collections de Calcutta. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 70: 235-257 [235]

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. [366, 713] (also on CD)

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [569]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [124, pl. 60, fig. 459]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [180]

Oliver, P.G. 1995. Bivalvia. pp. 194-281 in Dance, S.P. (ed). Seashells of Eastern Arabia. Dubai, UAE : Motivate Publishing. [265]

Rosenberg, G. & Huber, M. 2013. Antigona reticulata (Linnaeus, 1758). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507486 (Accessed on 2017-06-06)

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1979. A checklist of marine bivalves from Phuket (area). Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 27: 1-15 [12,13]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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)
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 VENEROIDEA 24-Aug-2011 MOVED Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014 29-Jul-2011 MODIFIED
25-Jul-2011 MODIFIED