WoRMS taxon details
Placuna [Lightfoot], 1786
206348 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206348)
accepted
Genus
Anomia placenta Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Placuna placenta (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)
Ephippium Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (synonym)
Placenta Philipsson, 1788 · unaccepted (synonym)
Placenta (Placenta) Philipsson, 1788 · unaccepted
Placenta (Placuna) [Lightfoot], 1786 · unaccepted
Placunema Stoliczka, 1871 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sellaria Link, 1807 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Placuna ephippium (Philipsson, 1788)
- Species Placuna lincolnii (J. E. Gray, 1849)
- Species Placuna lobata G. B. Sowerby II, 1871
- Species Placuna placenta (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Placuna quadrangula (Philipsson, 1788)
- Species Placuna lincolnii (Gray, 1849) sensu Lamprell & Whitehead, 1992 accepted as Placuna quadrangula (Philipsson, 1788) (misapplication)
- Species Placuna orbicularis (Philipsson, 1788) accepted as Placuna placenta (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Placuna papyracea Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Placuna quadrangula (Philipsson, 1788) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Placuna planicostata Dunker, 1879 accepted as Placuna lobata G. B. Sowerby II, 1871
- Species Placuna sella (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Placuna ephippium (Philipsson, 1788)
marine
Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 16 [details]
page(s): 16 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Placuna [Lightfoot], 1786. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206348 on 2024-08-13
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original description
Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Sellaria Link, 1807) Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben. 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237 [details]
original description (of Placenta Philipsson, 1788) Retzius A.J. (1788). <i>Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson</i>. 4+23 pp. Lund. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN581964985|LOG_0001&physid=PHYS_0004
page(s): 15 [details]
original description (of Ephippium Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]
basis of record Sheppard, A (1984). The molluscan fauna of Chagos (Indian Ocean) and an analysis ot its broad distribution patterns. Coral Reefs 3: 43-50. [details] Available for editors
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subsequent type designation Kennard A. S., Salisbury A. E. & Woodward B. B. (1931). The types of Lamarck's genera of shells as selected by J. G. Children in 1823. <i>Smithsonian Institution miscellaneous collections 82 (17)</i>: 1-40 [12 luglio 1931], available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24727704
page(s): 16 [details]
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Sellaria Link, 1807) Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben. 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237 [details]
original description (of Placenta Philipsson, 1788) Retzius A.J. (1788). <i>Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson</i>. 4+23 pp. Lund. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN581964985|LOG_0001&physid=PHYS_0004
page(s): 15 [details]
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original description (of Ephippium Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]
basis of record Sheppard, A (1984). The molluscan fauna of Chagos (Indian Ocean) and an analysis ot its broad distribution patterns. Coral Reefs 3: 43-50. [details] Available for editors
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subsequent type designation Kennard A. S., Salisbury A. E. & Woodward B. B. (1931). The types of Lamarck's genera of shells as selected by J. G. Children in 1823. <i>Smithsonian Institution miscellaneous collections 82 (17)</i>: 1-40 [12 luglio 1931], available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24727704
page(s): 16 [details]
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