Species Davila plana (Hanley, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mesodesma planum Hanley, S.C.T. 1843. Descriptions of five new species of bivalve shells from the collection of W. Metcalfe Esq. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 1843: 101-102 [102].
• Davila polita Gray, J.E. 1853. A revision of the genera of some of the families of conchifera or bivalve shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 11: 33-44 [44].
• Mesodesma crassula Reeve, L.A. 1854. Monograph of the genus Mesodesma. pls 1-4 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 8. [pl. 4, fig. 26].
• Mesodesma munda Gould, A.A. 1851. Shells from the United States Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 214-219; 252-258 [217].

 

Generic Combinations

• Davila plana (Hanley, 1843). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 41]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Indian Ocean to Japan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand.

 

General References

Habe, T. 1952. Astartidae, Crassatellidae, Mesodesmatidae and Laternulidae in Japan. In, Kuroda, T. (ed.). Illustrated Catalogue of Japanese Shells. Vol. 22. [168]

Huber, M. 2010. Davila plana. World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505802 (Accessed on 2015-04-21)

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. [457, 763, on CD]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [86, pl. 41, fig. 286]

Purchon, R.D. & Morris, S. 1981. The marine shelled Mollusca of West Malaysia and Singapore. Part 3. Bivalvia. Journal of Molluscan Studies 47: 322-327 [325]

Sakurai, K. & Habe, T. 1973. Family Mesodesmatidae of Japan and adjacent area with the description of a new species. Venus 32(1): 4-8 [6]

Zhuang, Q. 1978. Studies on the Mesodesmatidae (Lamellibranchia) off the Chinese coast. Studia Marina Sinica 14: 69-73 [70]

 

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. [352] (Very Flat Triangle Shell)

 

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	MACTROIDEA	31-Jul-2014	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014	MACTROIDEA	08-Jun-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		11-May-2011	MODIFIED