Species Astele subcarinatum Swainson, 1855
Keeled Top Shell, Subcarinate Astele, Umbilicated Top Shell
Compiler and date details
September 2014 - Des Beechey & Winston F. Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Reviewed by Bruce Marshall (Tepapa, New Zealand).
December 2012 - Des Beechey, Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Stephanie Baccarella, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Astele subcarinatum Swainson, W. 1855. On the characters of Astele, a new division in the family of Trochinae or Trochiform shells; together with the description of another species of the same family. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 3: 36-41, pl. 6 [38, pl. 6, figs 1-2].
Type data:
Status unknown, Tasmania. - Eutrochus perspectivus Adams, A. 1864. Description of a new genus and twelve new species of Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 506-509 [506].
Type data:
Status unknown, Tasmania. - Ziziphinus subgranulatus Dunker, G. 1871. Title unknown. 403 in Tryon, G.W. (ed). Manual of Conchology. Philadephia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 11. [403].
Type data:
Status unknown, Bass Strait, Tasmania. - Zizyphinus subgranularis Dunker, G. 1871. Mollusca nova Musei Godeffroy Hamburgensis. Malakozoologische Blätter 18: 150–175 [170, no. 56].
Type data:
Status unknown, Bass Strait. - Calliostoma adamsi Pilsbry, H.A. 1889-1890. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia Series 1, Vol. 11 519 pp., pls 1-67. [pp. 1-208 issued 1889; pp. 209-519 issued 7 March 1890] [403].
Type data:
Status unknown, Tasmania.
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Astele (Astele) subcarinatum Swainson, 1855. —
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [65, pl. 10, figs 20a-b]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, continental slope, coral, marine, mud-silt.
Extra Ecological Information
Dredged to 500 m
General References
Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [171]
Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [34]
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [65, pl. 10, figs 20a-b]
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. [62] (Subcarinate Astele)
Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [145] (Keeled Top Shell)
Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [59] (Umbilicated Top Shell)
History of changes
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| 06-Sep-2011 | MODIFIED |