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Species Tucetona pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Comb Bittersweet Clam


Compiler and date details

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

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-West Pacific. Coral Sea record from Australian Museum Sydney collection


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

 

General 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. [250, pl. 30 , fig. 4] (as T. amboinensis; illustration, description, distribution)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1985. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Part 12. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 22: 47-67 [64, fig. 39] (synonymy, illustration, description, distribution)

Dance, S.P. (ed) 1995. Seashells of Eastern Arabia. Dubai : Motivate Publishing 296 pp. [213, fig. 939] (as G. pectunculus; illustration, description, distribution, habitat)

Dharma, B. 1992. Indonesian Shells. Jakarta : Verlag Christa Hemmen Vol. 2 135 pp. [80, pl. 18, fig. 8] (illustration, description, habitat)

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [165, pl. 49, fig. 20] (as T. (Tucetopsis) amboinensis; illustration, description, distribution)

Hedley, C. 1909. Mollusca from the Hope Islands, north Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34(1): 420–466, pls 36–44 [423]

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. [155, text fig.]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [pl. 4, fig. 20] (illustration, description, distribution, habitat)

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [43, pl. 4]

Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [166, pl. 23, fig. 2] (as T. amboinensis extra; illustration, description, distribution, habitat)

Wye, K.R. 1991. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Shells. Leichardt, NSW, Australia : Sandstone Books 288 pp. [243, text fig.] (illustration, description, distribution, habitat)

 

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)
29-Jan-2013 29-Jan-2013 MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012 14-Aug-2012 MODIFIED
01-Oct-2010 01-Oct-2010 MOVED
30-Sep-2010 MODIFIED