Tegillarca granosa ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Cuny, Gilles, Kocsis, László, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Ngamnisai, Nom, Charoentitirat, Thasinee, Kumpitak, Satapat & Suraprasit, Kantapon, 2024, Mid-Holocene marine faunas from the Bangkok Clay deposits in Nakhon Nayok, the Central Plain of Thailand, ZooKeys 1202, pp. 1-110 : 1-110

Tegillarca granosa ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Figs 11 F , 12 C

Arca granosa Linnaeus, 1758: 694. Type locality: southern European ocean. Reeve 1844: Arca, pl. 3, sp. 15. Yokoyama 1927: 403. Lutaenko 2015: 135 – 136, pl. 1, fig. a – d.

Arca (Anadara) granosa . Lynge 1909: 118. Tesch 1920: 92 – 93, pl. 137, figs 248 a, b, 249 a – c.

Anadara granosa . Tantanasiriwong 1979: 4. Morris and Purchon 1981: 322. Nateewathana et al. 1981: 63. Nateewathana 1995: 101, with in-text fig. Poutiers 1998 a: 147, with in-text figs. Aungtonya et al. 1999: 372. Subba Rao and Dey 2000: 204. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 148, pl. 1, fig. 3. Robba et al. 2002: 57 – 58, pl. 2, fig. 4. Robba et al. 2003: tables 1 – 5. Dey 2006: 61, figs 86, 87. Dey and Ramakrishna 2007: 151, 172. Robba et al. 2007: 83 (appendix). Printrakoon et al. 2008: table 1. Nabhitabhata 2009: 284. Sanpanich 2011: table 2. Hylleberg and Aungtonya 2013: 94. Negri et al. 2014: table 3. Surakiatchai et al. 2018: table 6, pl. 2, fig. 7 a, b.

Anadara (Tegillarca) granosa . Vongpanich 1996: 187, 189, figs 47 – 50. Dharma 2005: 242, pl. 96, fig. 9; 362, pl. 146, fig. 10. Lutaenko et al. 2019: 174, pl. 3, fig. c, d.

Tegillarca granosa . Swennen et al. 2001: 44, 66, fig. 35. Gemert 2003: 107. Thach 2005: 244, pl. 75, fig. 8. Huber 2010: 141, with in-text fig. Poppe 2010 a: 486, pl. 934, figs 9, 10. Huber 2015: C 3352. BEDO 2017 a: 27, with in-text fig. Kantharajan et al. 2017: table 1, fig. 2 - 10. Okutani 2017: 1168, pl. 468, fig. 9. Yang et al. 2017: 150, fig. 586. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1. Tudu et al. 2019: 42 – 44, fig. 5 c, d. Wells et al. 2021: 54.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - B 20 (15 L + 15 R shells; Figs 11 F , 12 C ).

Habitat.

Mud down to 10 m depth in mangrove forests and muddy estuaries ( Swennen et al. 2001; Thach 2005; Kantharajan et al. 2017).

Distribution.

East Africa to India; Indo-West Pacific, from Japan to Australia and Polynesia ( Poutiers 1998 a; Kantharajan et al. 2017; Tudu et al. 2019). Records of fossils from the Late Miocene to Holocene in Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand ( Robba et al. 2002; Dharma 2005; Surakiatchai et al. 2018).

Record in Thailand.

Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea ( Wells et al. 2021).

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species differs from its similar species, Tegillarca nodifera , by having a less elongated shell with a lower number of ribs (15 – 21) and a lower number of nodules on ribs ( Tudu et al. 2019).

Figures

Figure 11. Gastropods and bivalves A Architectonica perdix B Ellobium aurisjudae C Cassidula nucleus D Anadara inaequivalvis E Anadara indica F Tegillarca granosa.

Figure 12. Size comparison of bivalves, scaphopod and other invertebrates found in this study A Tegillarca nodifera B Volachlamys singaporina C Tegillarca granosa D Noetiella pectunculiformis E Magallana cf. gigas F Estellacar olivacea G Anadara indica H Dentalium variabile I Siliqua minima J Corbula fortisulcata K Fistulobalanus kondakovi L Placamen lamellatum M Martesia striata N Potamocorbula sp. O Jupiteria puellata P Saccella mauritiana Q Paratapes undulatus R Dosinia dilecta S Joannisiella oblonga T Temnotrema siamense U Pholas orientalis.