Species Placuna placenta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anomia placenta Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [703].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, 'in Pelago' (open sea).
• Placuna orbicularis 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. [15].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indian Ocean.
• Ephippium transparens 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, China; Tranquebar, India.
• Placuna ovalis Blainville, H.M.D. de 1826. Vers et Zoophytes. In, Levrault, F.G. (ed.). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris & Strassburg : Levrault Vol. 41. [197].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, no locality.
• Placenta communis Mergerle von Mühlfeld, J.C. 1811. Entwurf eines neuen System's der Schalthiergehäuse. Magazin Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 5: 38-72 [59].
• Placenta auriculata Mörch, O.A.L. 1853. Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra et Gadea, Comes de Yoldi, regis Daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis Danebrogici in prima classe et ordinis tertii eques. Fasciculus Secundus. Acephala, Annulata Cirripeda, Echinodermata. Hafniae : Ludovici Kleini Vol. 2 74 pp. + 2 unnumbered pages. [Date published April].

 

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 (Placuna) placenta (Linnaeus, 1758).
• Placuna placentis (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Shopland, E.R. 1896. List of shells collected at Aden in 1892-95, classified in accordance with the Paetel Catalogue. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 10: 217-235 [235] (New combination)

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Placuna lincolnii (Gray, 1849). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [species no. 87] (as a synonym of Placuna (Placuna) placenta (Linnaeus, 1758))
  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. (this species is restricted to the Philippines; Australian records refer to Placuna quadrangula (Philipsson, 1788))

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Northern WA to northern QLD; tropical 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

Intertidal, intertidal flats, mangroves, marine, mud-silt, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 20 m.

 

General References

Bernard, F.R., Cai, Y.Y. & Morton, B. 1993. Catalogue of the Living Marine Bivalve Molluscs of China. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press 121 pp. [57]

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [452, B556]

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. 87] (as Placuna (Placuna) placenta (Linnaeus, 1758))

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 [236, pl. 1, figs 1-2, fig. 1A]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [86]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [86] (pl. 17; member of Family Anomiidae)

 

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. [288] (Common 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)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	15-Jul-2016	MODIFIED	ABRS
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