Geloina bengalensis
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
Geloina bengalensis (Lamarck, 1818)
Figs 13 C, 15 B
Cyrena bengalensis Lamarck, 1818: 554. Type locality: Bengal.
Polymesoda (Geloina) bengalensis. Brandt 1974: 310 – 311, pl. 28, fig. 83. Nateewathana 1995: 106, with in-text fig. Aungtonya et al. 1999: 380. Robba et al. 2002: 106, pl. 16, fig. 9. Robba et al. 2003: tables 1, 2. Robba et al. 2007: 87 (appendix). Nabhitabhata 2009: 21, with in-text fig, 471.
Polymesoda bengalensis. Poutiers 1998 a: 319, with in-text figs. Dharma 2005: 266, pl. 108, fig. 25. Dey 2006: 74 – 75, figs 113, 114. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1.
Geloina bengalensis. Huber 2015: 319; C 20908. BEDO 2017 a: 252, with in-text fig. Wells et al. 2021: 39.
Referred material.
CUF - NKNY - B 31 (2 L + 3 R shells; Figs 13 C, 15 B).
Habitat.
In intertidal zones, river deltas, estuaries, mud flats, and in mangrove areas (Poutiers 1998 a; Huber 2015).
Distribution.
Bay of Bengal; Indo-West Pacific, from Taiwan to Indonesia (Huber 2015). Records of fossils from the Holocene in Thailand (Robba et al. 2002).
Record in Thailand.
Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea (Wells et al. 2021).
Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.
This species is recognised based on the descriptions and figures in Robba et al. (2002) and Huber (2015), specifically in having a solid, inflated, pronounced inequilateral, and subtriangular shell shape.
Superfamily Mactroidea Lamarck, 1809
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cyrenidae
- Genus
- Geloina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Venerida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Lamarck
- Species
- bengalensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Geloina bengalensis (Lamarck, 1818) sec. Jirapatrasilp, Cuny, Kocsis, Sutcharit, Ngamnisai, Charoentitirat, Kumpitak & Suraprasit, 2024
References
- Lamarck J-BM de (1818) Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres. Tome 5. Deterville / Verdiere, Paris, 612 pp.
- Brandt RAM (1974) The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 105: 1 – 423.
- Nateewathana A (1995) Taxonomic account of commercial and edible molluscs, excluding cephalopods, of Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 15: 93 – 116.
- 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.
- Robba E, Di Geronimo I, Chaimanee N, Negri MP, Sanfilippo R (2002) Holocene and Recent shallow soft-bottom mollusks from the northern Gulf of Thailand area: Bivalvia. Bollettino Malacologico 38: 49 – 132.
- Robba E, Di Geronimo I, Chaimanee N, Negri M, Sanfilippo R (2003) Mollusc associations of the Northern Gulf of Thailand and Holocene analogs from the Bangkok Clay. Mahasarakham University Journal 22: 191 – 213.
- Robba E, Di Geronimo I, Chaimanee N, Negri MP, Sanfilippo R (2007) Holocene and recent shallow soft-bottom mollusks from the Western Gulf of Thailand: Pak Phanang Bay and additions to Phetchaburi fauna. Bollettino Malacologico 43: 1 – 98.
- Nabhitabhata J (2009) Checklist of Mollusca Fauna in Thailand. Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning, Bangkok, 576 pp.
- 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.
- Dharma B (2005) Recent and fossil Indonesian shells. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 424 pp.
- Dey A (2006) Handbook on mangrove associate molluscs of Sundarbans. Zoological Survey of Inida, Kolkata, xi + 96 pp.
- Tudu PC, Yennawar P, Ghorai N, Tripathy B, Mohapatra A (2018) An updated checklist of marine and estuarine mollusc of Odisha coast. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences 47: 1537 – 1560. http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/44778
- 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]
- 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