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
Type data:
Status unknown, Mers de la Nouvelle Hollande, a lîle Fourneau.- Plicatula depressa Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819].
Type data:
Holotype MHNG 1088/84.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
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.
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.
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. [56] (distribution)
Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [380] (contains synonymy)
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [112, no. 275] (general reference)
Nielsen, C. 1976. Checklist of bivalves from PMBC beach and reef flat, Phuket, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 9: 3-7 [4] (checklist)
Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls [58, pl. 8, fig. 4]
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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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 |