Genus Antigona Schumacher, 1817

Museums

Regional Maps

• Antigona Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. (51, 154) [Antigone [Gray, 1847, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15: 184] is an incorrect subsequent spelling. See also Omphaloclathrum and Omphala. Antigona lamellaris is a substitute name for Venus cancellata Linnaeus, 1767].

  Type species:

   Antigona lamellaris Schumacher, 1817 by monotypy.
• Cytherea Bolten, J.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus Cimeliorum Etribus Regnis Naturae. Hamburgi : Johan, Christi, Trappii 199 pp. [Sept. 1798] [177] [junior homonym; not Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera]].

  Type species:

   Venus puerpera Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Dall, W.H. 1902. Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American recent species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 26(1312): 335-412, pls 12-16 [354-355].
• Omphaloclathrum 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] [24] [attributed by Mörch to Klein, and used as a senior synonym of Antigona Schumacher [which is a senior objective synonym] and Dosina Gray].

  Type species:

   Antigona lamellaris Schumacher, 1817 by subsequent designation (Frizzell, 1936, Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 12: 47;).
• Periglypta Jukes-Browne, A.J. 1914. A synopsis of the family Veneridae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society 11(1-2): 53-94 [72].

  Type species:

   Venus puerpera Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Tigammona Iredale, T. 1930. More notes on the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 17(9): 384-407 [Date published 27 June] [396, 407].

  Type species:

   Tigammona persimilis Iredale, 1930 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific; Red Sea to Japan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Darragh, T.A. 2010. A new species of the genus Proxichione (Bivalvia: Veneridae) from Western Australia with notes on Late Tertiary species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 369–377 [369-371] (does condone synonymising of Proxichione with Antigona)

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. [711] (also on CD)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [124]

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N672] (as subgenus of Venus)

 

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)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Apr-2018	BIVALVIA	14-Mar-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	VENEROIDEA	13-May-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		14-Feb-2012	MODIFIED