OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
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Bivalvia Ostreoida Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Plicatula) australis Lamarck, 1819
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Plicatula australis Lamarck, 1819
Distribution
ABRS Regions: Australia: Northern Territory
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Central and East Indian Ocean: Eastern Indian Ocean: India (E)
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Central and East Indian Ocean: Eastern Indian Ocean: Thailand (W)
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Central and East Indian Ocean: Eastern Indian Ocean
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: NW coast
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: NE coast
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Gulf of Carp.
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: N coast
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Australia (N)
ABRS Regions: Australia: Queensland
ABRS Regions: Australia: Western Australia
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-China: China: Hong Kong (Xianggang)
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-China: South China Sea
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-China: Taiwan
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-China: Japan
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-China
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Philippines
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea
Dekker, H. & Orlin, Z. 2000. p. 10
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Central and East Indian Ocean: Eastern Indian Ocean: India (E)
Hylleberg, J. & Kilburn, R.N. 2002. p.59
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-China: China: Hong Kong (Xianggang)
Valentich-Scott, P. 2003. p.275
Keywords
depth: continental shelf [ to 150 m
]
depth: intertidal
depth: shallow subtidal
depth: subtidal
habit: cemented, epifaunal [ totally affixed to other shell or debris where it adapts to the shape of that shell or debris (Lamprell, 1998)
]
substrate: coral
substrate: rocks
substrate: shell-debris
References
Bernard, F.R., Cai, Y.Y. & Morton, B. 1993. p.56 Distribution
Iredale, T. 1939. p.380 Contains synonymy
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. p.112, no. 275 General reference
Nielsen, C. 1976. p.4 Checklist
Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. p.58, pl. 8, fig. 4 General reference
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Loboconcha
Bivalvia
Pteriomorphia
Ostreoida
Ostreina
Plicatuloidea
Plicatulidae Gray, 1854
Plicatula Lamarck, 1801
Plicatula (Plicatula) Lamarck, 1801
Plicatula (Plicatula) australis Lamarck, 1819
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=19801) created by Playpus Export Program on 2000-11-09. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-09-15.