Species Fimbria fimbriata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Venus fimbriata Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [487].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, in O. Indico (Indian Ocean).
• Fimbria magna Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Glover, E.A. & Taylor, J.D. 2007. Diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves on coral reefs: Lucinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of New Caledonia and Lifou. Zoosystema 29(1): 109-181

 

Generic Combinations

• Fimbria fimbriata (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 23]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-west Pacific: Andaman Islands to Marshall Islands, Fiji and Tonga; Coral Sea from Australian Museum reference collection records

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

To 20 m; shallowly buried in fine sand, under rocks, also in Zostera beds on sand

 

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. [311-312, pl. 37, fig. 8]

Allen J.A. & J.F. Turner 1970. The morphology of Fimbria fimbriata (Linne) (Bivalvia: Lucinidae). Pacific Science 24(2): 147-154

Bernard, F.R., Cai, Y.Y. & Morton, B. 1993. Catalogue of the Living Marine Bivalve Molluscs of China. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press 121 pp. [60]

Boss, K.J. 1970. Fimbria and its lucinoid affinities (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 350: 1-16

Glover, E.A. & Taylor, J.D. 2007. Diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves on coral reefs: Lucinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of New Caledonia and Lifou. Zoosystema 29(1): 109-181 [172-173, fig. 42]

Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part 1. Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3(7): 395–488, 49 text figs [Date published March 6] [497]

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [B617]

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. [261, text fig.; on CD]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [50, no. 146]

Morton, B. 1979. The biology and functional morphology of the coral-sand bivalve Fimbria fimbriata (Linnaeus, 1758). Records of the Australian Museum 32: 389-420

Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 2000. Catalogue of marine molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 187: x, 323 pp. [236]

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1979. A checklist of marine bivalves from Phuket (area). Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 27: 1-15 [8]

Taylor, J.D., Glover, E.A., Smith, L., Dyal, P. & Williams, S.T. 2011. Molecular phylogeny and classification of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 15-49 [24, 33, Tab. 1, Figs 1-5; on CD]

Taylor, J.D., Williams, S.T., Glover, E.A. & Dyal, P. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes. Zoologica Scripta 36(6): 587-606 (included in analysis)

Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2006. Lucinidae (Bivalvia) – the most diverse group of chemosymbiotic molluscs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(3): 421-438 (included in review)

Williams, S.T., Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of the Lucinoidea (Bivalvia): non-monophyly and separate acquisition of bacterial chemosymbiosis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 70(2): 187-202 (included in analysis)

 

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. [311, pl. 37, fig. 8] (For Corbus fimbriata ) (Basket Lucina)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [199] (Fimbriated Basket Shell)

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [B617] (Higo et al, 1999, species number: B617) (Chijimi-kago-gai)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [54, pl. 55C] (Common Basket 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)
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		31-Jul-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	LUCINOIDEA	30-May-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		18-Apr-2011	MODIFIED