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Species Apolymetis plicata (Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827)


Compiler and date details

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

 

Introduction

The authorship of Tellina plicata is in question with Huber (pers. comm.) proposing that Tellina plicata was first named by Bory de Saint-Vincent as late as 1827 in a later edition of the Encyclopédie Méthodique.

See: Bruguière, J.G., Deshayes, G.P., Lamarck, J.B. & Bory de Saint-Vincent. 1789-1832. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris. Vol. 1(1):1-344 (1789, Bruguière), Vol. 1(2): 345-585 (1792, Bruguière), Vol. 2(1): 1-256 (1830, Deshayes), Vol. 2(2):1-144 (1830, Deshayes), Vol. 2(2): 145-594 (1832, Deshayes), Vol. 3: 595-1152 (1832, Deshayes); Tableau encyclopédie et méthodique des trios règnes de la nature (Atlas) pl. 1-95, pp. 1-83 (1791, Bruguière); pl. 96-189, pp. 85-132 (1792, Bruguière); pl. 190-286 (1797, Bruguière); pl. 237-390 (1798, Lamarck; pl. 391-488, pp. 1-16 (1816, Lamarck; pp. 83-84, 133-180 (1827, Bory de Saint-Vincent); Paris

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

North Queensland, offshore islands; Andaman Islands, Indonesia, N. Borneo, Philippines


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine, sand, sublittoral, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

3 - 50m; among corals on sand

 

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)
23-Apr-2018 BIVALVIA 05-Apr-2018 MODIFIED Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014 11-Aug-2014 MOVED
11-Aug-2014 TELLINOIDEA 31-Jul-2014 MOVED Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014 TELLINOIDEA 11-Jul-2014 MODIFIED Mr Des Beechey (AM)
15-Jun-2011 MODIFIED