Species Trapezium bicarinatum (Schumacher, 1817)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Libitina bicarinatum Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [168, pl. 17, fig. 2a-b].
• Cypricardia rostrata Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Ile aux Kangaroos.
• Cypricardia angulata Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, "mers de la Nouvelle Hollande".
• Cypricardia corrugata Mighels, J.W. 1844. New Shells. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 1: 187-189 [188].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Zanzibar
  Comment: types destroyed by fire in 1854.
• Cypricardia dolosa Deshayes, G.P. 1863. Catalogue des Mollusques de l'Île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Annexe E in Maillard, L. (ed.). Notes sur l'isle de La Réunion. Paris : Dentu. [13, pl. 2, figs 6-7].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, l'isle de la Réunion.

 

Generic Combinations

• Trapezium (Trapezium) bicarinatum (Schumacher, 1817). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [Pl. 58]
• Trapezium bicarinatum (Schumacher, 1817).

 

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, coral reef, marine, rocks, rubble, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

In coral rubble byssally attached to or under rocks or coral blocks; on coral sands often nestling in crevices in corals.

 

General References

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. [356-357, on CD]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [120]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [171]

Rosenberg, G. & Huber, M. 2012. Trapezium bicarinatum. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208481 (Accessed on 2015-04-24)

Solem, A. 1954. Living species of the pelecypod family Trapeziidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 31: 64-84 [68-70]

 

Common Name References

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [species number B1088] (Funa-gata-gai)

 

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	ARCTICOIDEA	30-Mar-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		22-Mar-2011	MODIFIED