Volachlamys singaporina
Authors/Creators
- 1. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand & Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels - Standort Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, Hamburg 20146, Germany
- 2. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LEHNA UMR 5023, CNRS, ENTPE, F- 69622, Villeurbanne, France
- 3. Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Rue de la Mouline, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- 4. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
- 5. Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Description
Volachlamys singaporina (Sowerby II, 1842)
Figs 12 B, 14 F
Pecten singaporinus Sowerby II, 1842: 74, pl. 13, fig. 55; pl. 14, fig. 71. Type locality: Singapore. Lynge 1909: 155.
Volachlamys singaporina. Roussy 1991: 21. Poutiers 1998 a: 210, with in-text figs. Aungtonya et al. 1999: 376. Swennen et al. 2001: 45, 74, fig. 70. Gemert 2003: 108. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 169. Dharma 2005: 248, pl. 99, fig. 13 a – e; 364, pl. 147, fig. 3 a, b. Thach 2005: 263, pl. 80, fig. 13. Nabhitabhata 2009: 342. Huber 2010: 203, with in-text fig. Huber 2015: C 6118. BEDO 2017 a: 236, with in-text fig. Yang et al. 2017: 172, fig. 667. Dijkstra and Beu 2018: 296 – 298, figs 98, 100 j, l, 101 d, e. Wells et al. 2021: 67.
Referred material.
CUF - NKNY - B 07 (32 L + 32 R shells; Figs 12 B, 14 F).
Habitat.
Byssally attached under coral boulders and rocks, on sand and sandy mud in intertidal zones down to 22 m depth (Huber 2015).
Distribution.
Indo-West Pacific, from China to Australia (Huber 2015; Dijkstra and Beu 2018). Records of fossils from the Middle to Late Pliocene in Indonesia (Dharma 2005).
Record in Thailand.
Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea (Wells et al. 2021).
Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.
This species differs from its similar species, Volachlamys tranquebaria (Gmelin, 1791) and V. hirasei (Bavay, 1904), by having square and well-defined 18–24 ribs with wider interspaces between the ribs (Dharma 2005; Dijkstra and Beu 2018). See also comprehensive taxonomic remarks in Dijkstra and Beu (2018)
Superorder Heteroconchia Gray, 1854
Order Lucinida Gray, 1854
Superfamily Lucinoidea J. Fleming, 1828
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Sowerby II
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Pectinida
- Family
- Pectinidae
- Genus
- Volachlamys
- Species
- singaporina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Volachlamys singaporina (II, 1842) sec. Jirapatrasilp, Cuny, Kocsis, Sutcharit, Ngamnisai, Charoentitirat, Kumpitak & Suraprasit, 2024
References
- Sowerby GB II (1842) Monograph of the genus Pecten. In: Sowerby GB II (Ed.) Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of Genera of Shells. Sowerby II, G. B., London, 45 - 78.
- Lynge H (1909) Marine Lamellibranchia. The Danish Expedition to Siam 1899 – 1900. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Skrifter, Naturvidenskab og Mathematik Afdeling, Ser 7 5: 97 – 299. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/25913
- Roussy H (1991) Family Pectinidae recorded – a checklist. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 9: 21.
- Poutiers JM (1998 a) Bivalve (Acephala, Lamellibranchia, Pelecypoda). In: Carpenter KE, Niem VH (Eds) FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1 Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, 123 – 362.
- Aungtonya C, Thaiklang N, Srisawan D (1999) Recent records of Bivalvia in the reference collection of Phuket Marine Biological Center, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 19: 371 – 383.
- Swennen C, Moolenbeek RG, Ruttanadakul N, Hobbelink H, Dekker H, Hajisamae S (2001) The Molluscs of the Southern Gulf of Thailand. The Biodiversity Research and Training Program, Bangkok, 210 pp.
- Gemert L van (2003) Marine schelpen verzamelen op Ko Samui (Golf van Thailand). De Kreukel 39: 95 – 109.
- Hylleberg J, Kilburn RN (2003) Marine molluscs of Vietnam: annotations, voucher material, and species in need of verification. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 28: 1 – 300.
- Dharma B (2005) Recent and fossil Indonesian shells. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 424 pp.
- Thach NN (2005) Shells of Vietnam. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 338 pp.
- Nabhitabhata J (2009) Checklist of Mollusca Fauna in Thailand. Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning, Bangkok, 576 pp.
- 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. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 901 pp.
- Huber M (2015) Compendium of Bivalves 2. A Full-Color Guide to the Remaining Seven Families. A Systematic Listing of 8 ' 500 Bivalve Species and 10 ' 500 Synonyms. ConchBooks, Hackenheim.
- BEDO (2017 a) Marine Bivalves: Checklist of Molluscan Biodiversity in Thailand. BEDO, Bangkok, 296 pp. [in Thai]
- Yang W, Cai Y, Kuang X (2017) Color Atlas of Molluscs of the South China Sea. China Agriculture Press, Beijing, 275 pp.
- Dijkstra HH, Beu AG (2018) Living scallops of Australia and adjacent waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 70 (2): 113 – 330. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1670
- Wells FE, Sanpanich K, Tan SK, Duangdee T (2021) The Marine and Estuarine Molluscs of Thailand. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum National University of Singapore, Singapore, 195 pp. https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/LKCNHM-EBOOK-2021-0001.pdf
- Gmelin JF (1791) Vermes. In: Gmelin JF (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed 13 Tome 1 (6). G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig], 3021 - 3910.