Species Placuna ephippium (Philipsson in Retzius, 1788)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Placenta ephippium Retzius, A.J. 1788. Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson. Dissertatio Historico-Naturalis. Lund pp. 1-4, 1-23. [16].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indian Ocean.
• Anomia sella 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] [3345].
• Ephippium polonicum Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [166].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Moluccas.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Placuna (Ephippium) ephippium (Philipsson in Retzius, 1788).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Mangroves, marine, mud-silt.

Extra Ecological Information

On surface near mangroves.

 

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. [34, no. 88] (as Placuna (Ephippium) ephippium (Philipsson, 1788))

Matsukuma, A. 1987. Studies on the Kawamura Collection (Mollusca) stored in the National Science Museum, Tokyo- IV. The family Placunidae (Bivalvia) with special reference to their ligament. Venus 45(4): 231-244 [238, figs 1B, 2-3]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [289] (Saddle Window 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)
26-Nov-2012		26-Nov-2012	MOVED
14-Jun-2013		18-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
14-Jun-2013		23-Aug-2012	MOVED
		19-Apr-2011	MODIFIED