Species Asaphis violascens (Forsskål, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Venus violascens 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. 28].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMUC, Red Sea.
• Tellina anomala Born, I. von 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, pl. 1, Testacea. - Verzeichniss etc. Illust. Vindobonae. Vienna : J.P. Krauss xlii 458 pp. [20].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW 3051 = E.31ß, locality unknown.
• Sanguinolaria rugosa 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. [411].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHN, "les mers de l'Inde et celles de l'Amerique", restricted to Indian Ocean.
• Sanguinolaria dichotoma Anton, H.E. 1838. Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Hermann Eduard Anton befinden. Halle : Eduard Anton xvi + 110 pp. [imprint date 1839; see Cernohorsky (1978: 299) for publication dates] [4, no. 123].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMUC, East Indies.
• Capsa tahitensis Reeve, L.A. 1856. Monograph of the genus Capsa. pl. 1 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 10. [pl. 1, sp. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1989121/1, Tahiti.

 

Generic Combinations

• Asaphis violascens (Forsskål, 1775). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [112, pl. 54, fig. 405]

 

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

Intertidal, marine, rocks, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

Muddy sand with incorporated gravel or coral rubble.

 

General References

Gofas, S., Rosenberg, G. & Huber, M. 2013. Asaphis violascens (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213508 (Accessed on 2015-02-23)

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. [333, CD: line 11133]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [112, pl. 54, fig. 405]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [162]

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)

Willan, R.C. 1993. Taxonomic revision of the family Psammobiidae (Bivalvia: Tellinoidea) in the Australian and New Zealand region. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 1-132 [6, figs 13-26, 381]

 

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. [70, pl. 71D] (Pacific Asaphis)

 

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	12-Nov-2013	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		15-Jun-2011	MODIFIED