Corbicula subplanata Martens, 1897:112
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Corbicula (Corbicula) subplanata E. von Martens, 1897; Corbicula celebensis E. von Martens, 1897:113
See Graf & Cummings (2025) for a more complete taxonomic history.
Conservation Status
Missing (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017)
Distribution
Sulawesi, Indonesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Martens, E. von. (1897). Süss- und Brackwasser-Mollusken des Indischen Archipels. Zoologische Ergebnisse Einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien 4: 1-331, pls 1-12.
Other references:
Bespalaya, Y. V., Bolotov, I. N., Aksenova, O. V., Kondakov, A. V., Gofarov, M. Yu. et al. (2018). Aliens are moving to the Arctic frontiers: An integrative approach reveals selective expansion of androgenic hybrid Corbicula lineages towards the north of Russia. Biological Invasions 20: 2227-2243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-018-1698-z
Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.
Djajasasmita, M. (1973). On the species of the genus Corbicula from Celebes, Indonesia (Mollusca: Corbiculidae). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 4(10): 83-87.
Djajasasmita, M. (1977). An annotated list of species of the genus Corbicula from Indonesia (Mollusca: Corbiculidae). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 6(1): 1-9.
Glaubrecht, M., Fehér, Z. and Köhler, F. (2007). Inventorizing an invader: Annotated type catalogue of Corbidulidae Gray, 1847 (Bivalivia, Heterodonta, Veneroidea), including Old World limnic Corbicula in the Natural History Museum Berlin. Malacologia 49(2): 243−272.
Gomes, C., Sousa, R., Mendes, T., Borges, R., Vilares, P. et al. (2016). Low genetic diversity and high invasion success of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia, Corbiculidae) (Müller, 1774) in Portugal. PLoS One 11(7): e0158108 (1-16 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158108
Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2025). The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). MUSSEL Project Web Site, https://www.mussel-project.net/. Accessed 1 July 2025.
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Corbicula subplanata E. von Martens, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1349111 on 2025-07-01
Prashad, B. (1930). Revision of the Asiatic species of the genus Corbicula. IV. — The species of the genus Corbicula from the Sunda Islands, the Celebes, and New Guinea. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 9: 193-203.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01245.x [Appendix S1-S2]
Rintelen, Thomas von and Glaubrecht, Matthias. (2005). Rapid evolution of sessility in an endemic species flock of the freshwater bivalve Corbicula from ancient lakes on Sulawesi, Indonesia. Biology Letters 2: 73-77. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0410
Sahidin, A., Muhammad, G., Hasan, Z., Arief, M. C. W., Marwoto, R. M. and Komaru, A. (2021). Indonesian freshwater bivalves: a meta-analysis of endemicity, ecoregion distributions, and conservation status. AACL Bioflux 14(6): 3750-3775.
Whitten, Anthony J., Nash, Stephen V., Bishop, K. David and Clayton, Lynn. (1987). One or more extinctions from Sulawesi, Indonesia? Conservation Biology 1: 42-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.1987.tb00007.x
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