Jupiteria puellata ( Hinds, 1843 )

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

Jupiteria puellata ( Hinds, 1843)

Figs 10 C , 12 O

Nucula puellata Hinds, 1843: 100. Type locality: Malacca; from 10 to 17 fathoms, coarse sand.

Nuculana puellata . Lynge 1909: 105. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 139.

Nuculana (Jupiteria) puellata . Robba et al. 2002: 53, pl. 1, fig. 4 a, b. Robba et al. 2003: tables 1, 2, 4 – 5. Robba et al. 2007: 83 (appendix). Nabhitabhata 2009: 279. Negri et al. 2014: table 3. Huber 2015: C 666.

Jupiteria puellata . Wells et al. 2021: 50.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - B 25 (37 shells; Figs 10 C , 12 O ).

Habitat.

Subtidal on coarse sand, soft clay, and mud bottoms at a depth from 5 to 40 m ( Huber 2015).

Distribution.

Indo-West Pacific, from southern China to New Guinea ( Huber 2015). Records of fossils from the Holocene in Thailand ( Robba et al. 2002).

Record in Thailand.

Gulf of Thailand ( Wells et al. 2021).

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species is recognised based on the descriptions and figures in Robba et al. (2002), specifically in having an unsculptured surface bearing only faint growth markings.

Saccella Woodring, 1925

Figures

Figure 10. Gastropods and bivalves. A Duplicaria tricincta B Cylichna modesta C Jupiteria puellata D Saccella mauritiana.

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.