Plicatula

Plicatula is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs, known commonly as kitten's paws or kittenpaws in the family Plicatulidae.

Species

• Plicatula angolensis <small>Cosel, 1995</small>
• Plicatula anomioides <small>Keen, 1958</small>
• Plicatula australis <small>Lamarck, 1819</small>
• Plicatula ceylanica <small>G. B. Sowerby II, 1873</small>
• Plicatula complanata <small>Deshayes, 1863</small>
• Plicatula dubia <small>G. B. Sowerby II, 1847</small>
• Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>
• Plicatula horrida <small>Dunker, 1882</small>
• † Plicatula hunterae <small>Shaak and Nicol, 1974</small>
• † Plicatula megaera <small>(d'Orbigny, 1850)</small>
• Plicatula miskito <small>Petuch, 1998</small>
• Plicatula muricata <small>G. B. Sowerby II, 1873</small>
• Plicatula novaezelandiae <small>G. B. Sowerby II, 1873</small>
• Plicatula penicillata <small>Carpenter, 1857</small>
• Plicatula pernula <small>Melvill, 1898</small>
• Plicatula plicata <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small>
• Plicatula regularis <small>Philippi, 1849</small>
• † Plicatula selandica <small>Schnetler, 2001</small>
• Plicatula spondylopsis <small>Rochebrune, 1895</small>
• Plicatula squamosissima <small>E. A. Smith, 1899</small>

Synonyms

• Plicatula australis <small>sensu P. G. Oliver, 1995, not Lamarck, 1819</small>: synonym of Plicatula complanata <small>Deshayes, 1863</small> (misapplication)
• Plicatula barbadensis <small>d'Orbigny, 1846</small>: synonym of Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>
• Plicatula caribbeana <small>Weisbord, 1964</small>: synonym of Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>
• Plicatula chinensis <small>Mörch, 1853</small>: synonym of Plicatula plicata <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small>
• Plicatula cristata <small>Lamarck, 1819</small>: synonym of Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>
• Plicatula cuneata <small>Dunker, 1877</small>: synonym of Plicatula regularis <small>Philippi, 1849</small>
• Plicatula deltoidea <small>Dunker, 1849</small>: synonym of Plicatula plicata <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small>
• Plicatula depressa <small>Lamarck, 1819 sensu G. B. Sowerby II, 1847</small>: synonym of Plicatula complanata <small>Deshayes, 1863</small> (misapplication)
• Plicatula depressa <small>Lamarck, 1819</small>: synonym of Plicatula australis <small>Lamarck, 1819</small>
• Plicatula essingtonensis <small>G. B. Sowerby II, 1873</small>: synonym of Plicatula plicata <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small>
• † Plicatula hekiensis <small>Nakazawa, 1955</small> : synonym of † Harpax hekiensis <small>(Nakazawa, 1955)</small>
• Plicatula imbricata <small>Menke, 1843</small>: synonym of Plicatula plicata <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small>
• Plicatula inezana <small>Durham, 1950</small>: synonym of Plicatula spondylopsis <small>Rochebrune, 1895</small>
• Plicatula irregularis <small>Dunker, 1882</small>: synonym of Plicatula horrida <small>Dunker, 1882</small>
• Plicatula laqueatus <small>G. B. Sowerby II, 1842</small>: synonym of Pecten albicans <small>(</small>Schröter, 1802)
• Plicatula lineata <small>Récluz, 1851</small>: synonym of Plicatula australis <small>Lamarck, 1819</small>
• Plicatula menkeana <small>Finlay, 1927</small>: synonym of Plicatula plicata <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small>
• Plicatula mesembrina <small>Dall, 1925</small>: synonym of Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>
• Plicatula multiplicata <small>Deshayes, 1863</small>: synonym of Plicatula australis <small>Lamarck, 1819</small>
• Plicatula naganumana <small>Yokoyama, 1920</small>: synonym of Pecten albicans <small>(Schröter, 1802)</small>
• Plicatula ostreivaga <small>Rochebrune, 1895</small>: synonym of Plicatula penicillata <small>Carpenter, 1857</small>
• Plicatula philippinarum <small>G. B. Sowerby II, 1847</small>: synonym of Plicatula plicata <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small>
• Plicatula plicatula [sic]: synonym of Plicatula plicata <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small>(misspelling)
• Plicatula ramosa <small>Lamarck, 1819</small>: synonym of Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>
• Plicatula ramosa Lamarck, 1819 sensu G. B. Sowerby II, 1847: synonym of Plicatula plicata <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small>(misapplication)
• Plicatula reniformis <small>Lamarck, 1819</small>: synonym of Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>
• Plicatula rugosa <small>Dunker, 1877</small>: synonym of Plicatula horrida <small>Dunker, 1882</small>
• Plicatula similis <small>G. B. Sowerby II, 1842</small>: synonym of Pecten maximus <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
• Plicatula simplex <small>Gould, 1861</small>: synonym of Plicatula regularis <small>Philippi, 1849</small>
• † Plicatula spinosa <small>J. Sowerby, 1819</small> : synonym of † Harpax spinosus <small>(J. Sowerby, 1819)</small>
• Plicatula spondyloidea <small>Meuschen Arango & Molina, 1878</small>: synonym of Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>
• Plicatula venezuelana <small>Weisbord, 1964</small>: synonym of Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>
• Plicatula vexillata <small>Guppy, 1874</small>: synonym of Plicatula gibbosa <small>Lamarck, 1801</small>

References

• Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
• Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

External links

• Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'apres la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; Précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle l'an 8 de la République. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris: viii + 432 pp.
• Simone, L. R. L. & do Amaral, V. S. (2008). Plicatulostrea, a new genus of Plicatulidae (Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) from Thailand. In: Molluscs of Eastern Thailand: Proceedings of the International Marine Bivalve Workshop, Chanthaburi, Thailand, August-September 2005, with contributions on other molluscan groups (Rüdiger Bieler, Kashane Chalermwat, Paula M. Mikkelsen, Tan Koh Siang and Fred E. Wells, eds.). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. suppl. 18: 127-135
• Schmidt F.C. 1818, Versuch über die beste Einrichtung zur Aufstellung: Behandlung und Aufbewahrung der verschiedenen Naturkörper und gegená¹£tände der Kunst, vorzüglich der Conchylien-Sammlungen, nebst kurzer Beurtheilung der conchyliologischen Systeme und Schriften und einer tabellarischen Zusammenstellung und Vergleichung der sechs besten und neuesten conchyliologischen Systeme. Gotha, J. Perth, 252 pp.