Species Donax (Latona) cuneatus Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

Regional Maps

• Donax cuneatus 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. [683].
• Donax radiatus Humphrey, G. 1797. Museum Calonnianum : specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history collected by M. de Calonne in France and lately his property : consisting of an assemblage of the most beautiful and rare subjects in entomology, conchology, ornithology, mineralogy, &c. London : E. Bibl. Radcl. viii, 84 pp. [47].
• Latona variabilis Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [156].
• Donax granosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [547].
• Donax bicolor Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [548].
• Donax obscura Deshayes, G.P. 1830. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 2, Part 2 pp. 1-144. [Date published 1 February 1830] [98].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Donax (Latona) cuneatus Linnaeus, 1758. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [106, pl. 51, fig. 379]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, intertidal, marine, sand.

 

General References

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. [100]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [185, pl. 67, fig. 3]

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. [318, 696, CD: line 10562]

Nayar, N.K. 1955. Studies on the growth of the wedge clam Donax (Latona) cuneatus. Indian Journal of Fisheries 2: 325-348

Rosenberg, G. 2012. Donax cuneatus Linnaeus, 1758. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216498 (Accessed on 2015-02-23)

Satyamurti, S.T. 1956. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. II. Scaphopoda, Pelecypoda, and Cephalopoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 7): 202 pp., 30 pls [145-146, pl. 22, figs 2a-2b]

Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 1986. Contributions to the knowledge of Indian marine molluscs 2. Family Donacidae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 91: 1-30, 4 pls [11-14, figs 5-6, 22, 23, 27, 36]

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. [264]

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1979. A checklist of marine bivalves from Phuket (area). Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 27: 1-15 [11]

 

Common Name References

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [72, pl. 73C] (Cuneate Wedge 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	TELLINOIDEA	01-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		15-Jun-2011	MODIFIED