Species Pinna incurva Gmelin, 1791

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• Pinna incurva Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3366] [refers to Chemnitz 1785: pl. 90, fig. 778; Huber (2010) records the Australian form of Pinna incurva, as represented by Pinna incurvata, as an undescribed species].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Keppel Bay, QLD, Australia, originally Indian Ocean (Oceano Indico).
• Pinna incurvata Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1825. A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville : arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system: together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species. London : printed by E.J. Stirling for G.B. Sowerby vii, 92 pp. + appendix of xxiv pp. + coloured plates. [23] [junior homonym; not Pinna incurvata Born, 1778].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality not given.
• Pinna incurvata Reeve, L.A. 1858. Monograph of the genus Pinna. pls 2-32 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 11. [pl. 5, fig. 8] [junior homonym; not Pinna incurvata Born, 1778; this name is considered to be a synonym of Pinna incurva by Huber (2010) to have been misapplied to an undescribed Indo-Pacific species, also found in north-eastern Australian waters].

  Type data:

   Holotype Molluccas, Indonesia.

 

Introduction

Huber (2010) does not recongise Pinna incurva from Australia, but treats the Australian form as represented by Pinna incurvata Reeve, 1858 as an undescribed species.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Indian Ocean and Central Indo West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, mud bottom–marine, sand bottom marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 25 m

 

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.

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [14, pl. 5, fig. 27]

Rosewater, J. 1961. The family Pinnidae in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(4): 175-226 [200-2002, pls 149, 154, 155]

Winckworth, R. 1929. Marine mollusca from South India and Ceylon, III. Pinna. With an index to the recent species of Pinna. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 18: 276-297 [287]

 

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)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	PINNOIDEA	12-Sep-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		17-Nov-2010	ADDED
		17-Nov-2010	MODIFIED