Species Placuna quadrangula (Philipsson, 1788)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Placenta quadrangula 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, Transquebar, India.
• Anomia sella minor 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 anomia 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] [(2) 166].
• Anomia sella junior Dillwyn, L.W. 1817. A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London : John and Arthur Arch 2 volumes 1092 + 29 pp. [Vol. 2: 297].
• Placuna papyracea Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [224].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indian Ocean.

 

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 quadrangula (Philipsson, 1788).

 

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. [pl. 15, fig. 89]
  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

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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. 89] (as Placuna (Ephippium) lincolnii (Gray, 1849))

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 [239, pl. 1, figs 3-4]

 

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