Species Laevichlamys andamanica (Preston, 1908)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chlamys andamanica Preston, H.B. 1908. Descriptions of new species of land, marine and freshwater shells from the Andaman Islands. Records of the Indian Museum 2(2): 187-210, pls 14-17 [204, pl. 14, fig. 19].
• Pecten perfectus Melvill, J.S. 1909. Report on the marine Mollusca obtained by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner F.R.S., among the islands of the Indian Ocean in 1905. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 13: 65-138 [127, pl. 5, fig. 15].

 

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

• Laevichlamys andamanica (Preston, 1908). —
  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. [207]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Great Barrier Reef, QLD and Coral Sea, possibly across northern Australia; tropical, Indo-west Pacific (Vietnam, Red Sea)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand bottom marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks or coral between rubble

 

General References

Dijkstra, H.H. & Beu, A.G. 2018. Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 70(2): 113-330 [238]

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. [207] (also on CD)

 

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)
02-Apr-2020	PECTINOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815	10-Mar-2020	MODIFIED
		15-Nov-2011	ADDED