Species Streptopinna saccata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pinna saccata Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [707] [as Pinna saccata var. similis Turton, 1932; refers to Rumphius, pl. 46, fig. N; and to Gualtieri, pl. 79, fig. F].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Amboina, Moluccas.
• Pinna lubrica Lightfoot, J. 1786. A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland: deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co., etc. London viii, 194 pp. + 44 pp. [1786] [nomen nudum].
• Pinna vitrea Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3366] [refers to Chemnitz, vol. 8, pl. 87, fig. 772 (= S. saccata L.); also Gualtieri, pl. 78, fig. C, and pl. 79, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indian Ocean.
• Pinna nuttallii Conrad, T.A. 1837. Descriptions of new marine shells, from Upper California. Collected by Thomas Nuttall, Esq. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia series 1 7(2): 227-268 [244, pl. 19, fig. 4] [not treated by Huber (2010)].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, ANSP, Sandwich Islands.
• Pinna elongata Reeve, L.A. 1858. Monograph of the genus Pinna. pls 2-32 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 11. [pl. 4, fig. 6] [non Röding, 1798].
• Streptopinna saccata inusitata Iredale, T. 1927. Caloundra Shells. The Australian Zoologist 4: 331-336, pl. 46 [333, pl. 46, figs. 9-11].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.53671 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Michaelmas Cay, off Cairns, Queensland, Australia [16°36‘0‘S, 145°58‘58.8‘E].
• Pinna saccata similis Turton, W.H. 1932. The Marine Shells of Port Alfred, South Africa. London : Oxford University Press 331 pp., 70 pls. [218, pl. 56, fig. 1518] [juvenile of Malleus regulus according to Huber (2010)].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, Port Alfred, South Africa.
• Pinna aenigmatica Turton, W.H. 1932. The Marine Shells of Port Alfred, South Africa. London : Oxford University Press 331 pp., 70 pls. [219, pl. 56, fig. 1521] [juvenile of Malleus regulus according to (Huber 2010)].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, Port Alfred.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific and New Zealand

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Tide pools, coral reef, rocky substrate

 

General References

Habe, T. 1953. Pinnidae, Placunidae, Anomiidae in Japan. pp. 185-200 in Kuroda, T. (ed.). Illustrated Catalogue of Japanese Shells. Vol. 24. [195, pl. 28, fig. 20]

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.

Iredale, T. 1927. Caloundra Shells. The Australian Zoologist 4: 331-336, pl. 46 [335, pl. 46, figs 9-11] (as Streptopinna saccata inusitata)

Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [204] (as S. saccata inusitata)

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 [318] (as S. saccata inusitata)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [10]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [516, fig. 165 C]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [16, pl. 6, fig. 33]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [58]

Rosewater, J. 1961. The family Pinnidae in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(4): 175-226 [221-225, pls 169-171]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [368, fig. 409]

 

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)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	PINNOIDEA	12-Sep-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		17-Nov-2010	ADDED
		17-Nov-2010	MODIFIED