Species Barbatia (Cucullaearca) foliata (Forsskål, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arca foliata Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [xxxi] [no. 34].

  Type data:

   Lectotype (illustrated in Yaron, I., Schiøtte, T. & Vium-Andersen, G. 1986. A review of molluscan taxa described by P. Forsskål and C. Niebuhr with citation of original descriptions, discussion of type-material available and selection of some lectotypes. Steenstrupia 12(10): 157–203 [fig. 47]), Red Sea.

  Secondary source:

   Yaron, I., Schiøtte, T. & Vium-Andersen, G. 1986. A review of molluscan taxa described by P. Forsskål and C. Niebuhr with citation of original descriptions, discussion of type-material available and selection of some lectotypes. Steenstrupia 12(10): 157-203 [198].
• Arca nivea Chemnitz, J.H. 1784. Neues systematisches Conchylien - Cabinet. Nürnberg : G.N. Raspe Vol. 7 pp. 1-356, pls 37-69. [191, pl.54, fig.538] [Non-binomial; valid Röding 1798].
• Arca trapezina Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [41].
• Byssoarca velata Sowerby. G.B. 1833. Characters of new species of Mollusca and conchifera, collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1833: 16-134 [18].

  Secondary source:

   Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Arca. pp. Plate III-XVII in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. (specimen 79).
• Arca corallicola 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 [253] [pl. II, figs 2, 2a].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60267 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. [133, text fig.; 563-564] (Huber also lists the additional synonyms: Arca ovata Gmelin, 1798; Arca sinuata Lamarck, 1819; Arca lima Reeve, 1844)

 

Generic Combinations

• Abarbatia corallicola (Iredale, 1939). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [8]
• Barbatia (Cucullaearca) foliata (Forsskål, 1775). —
  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. [133, text fig.; 563-564]
• Barbatia (Barbatia) foliata (Forsskål, 1775). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [46, fig. 54]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Among rocks, coral reef, intertidal, marine, rock bottom, shallow subtidal, 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. [254]

Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca. Part 2. Pelecypoda and Brachiopoda. The atoll of Funafuti, Ellice Group: its zoology, botany, ethnology, and general structure based on collections made by Mr Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum. Part 8. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3: 491-510 [491]

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. [133, text fig.; 563-564]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [8] (as Abarbatia corallicola)

Kilburn, R.N. 1983. The recent Arcidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 25(2): 511-548 [516, figs. 4-5] (synonymy)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [46, fig. 54]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [35, pl. 2]

 

Common Name References

Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Arca. pp. Plate III-XVII in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. (species 87; used for the available name Arca velata) (Clothed Ark)

 

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)
28-Jul-2014		28-Jul-2014	MOVED
28-Aug-2012		28-Aug-2012	MOVED
07-Aug-2012		14-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		15-Sep-2010	MODIFIED