Species Antigona laqueata (Sowerby, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Venus laqueata Sowerby, G.B. 1853. Thesaurus Conchyliorum. Monograph of the Genera of Shells - Monograph of the Genus Venus. London : G.B. Sowerby Vol. 2 pp. 703-741. [706, pl. 153, fig. 15].

 

Generic Combinations

• Proxichione laqueata (Sowerby, 1853). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1950. Mollusca from Western Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(3): 333–338 [334]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Tigammona chemnitzii (Hanley, 1844) [misidentification]. —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [22]
• Periglypta chemnitzii (Hanley, 1844) [misidentification]. —
  Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [197]
• Cytherea chemnitzii (Hanley, 1844) [misidentification]. —
  Hedley, C. 1906. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31(3): 453-479, pls 36-37 [466]
• Chione (Omphalocathrum) chemnitzii (Hanley, 1844) [misidentification]. —
  Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1899. Report on the marine Mollusca obtained during the first expedition of Prof. A.C. Haddon to the Torres Straits in 1888-89. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 27: 150-206, pls 1-2 [195]
• Antigona (Antigona) chemnitzii (Hanley, 1844) [misidentification. Repeated in numerous instances, in various combinations, in the older literature as well]. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [124, pl. 60, fig. 453] (with foot note referring it to gladstonensis)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, estuary, intertidal, marine, mud-silt, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Among algae

 

General References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [39] (as chemnitzii)

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. [364, 711] (also on CD)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [22] (as chemnitzii)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [124, pl. 60, figs 453] (as Antigona (Antigona) chemnitzii)

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [39] (based on a misidentification of A. chemnitzii) (Chemnitz's Cockle)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [74, pl. 75D] (based on a misidentification of A. chemnitzii) (Chemnitz's Venus)

 

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)
23-Apr-2018	BIVALVIA	10-Apr-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	VENEROIDEA	24-Aug-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014		28-Jul-2011	MODIFIED
		25-Jul-2011	MODIFIED