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Species Plicatula (Plicatula) australis Lamarck, 1819


Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Indian Ocean, Hong Kong, East India, Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, Philippines, Red Sea, Taiwan, Thailand.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth:continental shelf to 150m, subtidal, intertidal, shallow subtidal; habit:cemented, epifaunal, totally affixed to other shell or debris where it adapts to the shape of that shell or debris (Lamprell & Healy 1998); substrate:shell-debris, rocks, coral.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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-Jun-2013 07-Aug-2014 MODIFIED
24-Nov-2010 MODIFIED