Species Nassarius (Zeuxis) dorsatus (Röding, 1798)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Buccinum dorsatum Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [111].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Port Darwin, Northern Territory.
• Nassa livida Gray, J.E. 1826. Mollusca. pp. 474-496 in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [484].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Australia.
• Buccinum unicolorum Kiener, L.C. 1834. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau Vol. 9. [60, pl. 19, fig. 69].
• Nassa unicolorata Reeve, L.A. 1853. Monograph of the genus Nassa. pls 1-25 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 8. [pl. 3, fig. 17].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Nth. Australia.
• Nassa rutilans Reeve, L.A. 1853. Monograph of the genus Nassa. pls 1-25 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 8. [pl. 22, fig. 147].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, New Zealand (error).

 

Generic Combinations

• Nassarius (Zeuxis) dorsatus (Röding, 1798). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [54]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

South coast of West Irian

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, intertidal flats, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 55 m; sand-bars.

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Nassariidae Coverage. The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Nassariidae/Pages/Nassariidae_coverage.htm (date accessed 15/8/2012)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1981. Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18: 137-192 [165, figs 50-53]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [54]

Morton, B. & Britton, J.C. 2002. Holothurian feeding by Nassarius dorsatus on a beach in Western Australia. Journal of Molluscan Studies 68: 187-189

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [87, pl. 14, figs 23a-c]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [154, pl. 27, fig. 16] (One Colour Dog Whelk)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [28, pl. 52] (Unicolor Dog Whelk)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [148, pl. 149] (Channelled Dog Whelk)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	04-Sep-2013	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED