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Species Melo miltonis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)

Milton's Melon Shell, Southern Baler Shell

 

Generic Combinations

  • Melo miltonis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

SA to Abrolhos, WA.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Direct developer, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Oviparous; to depths of 20 m.

 

General References

Angas, G.F. 1864. Observations on the Geoghraphical Distribution of the Species of Voluta and Cymbium in the Australian Seas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1): 50-55 [Date published July] [54] (as Melo miltonis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834))

Cotton, B.C. 1936. The Southern Australian Baler Shell, Melo miltonis Gray. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4: 505-508 [505] (as Melo miltonis Gray)

Cotton, B.C. 1944. Egg Capsule of the South Australian Baler Shell Melo miltonis Gray. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8(1): 143-144 [143]

Gray, J.E. 1855. Observations of the species of Volutes — Volutidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1855(Part 23): 50-65 [Date published 16 May 1855] [55] (as Cymbium miltonis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834))

Knudsen, J. 1993. Redescription of the egg mass of Melo miltonis (Griffith and Pidgeon, 1834) (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Volutidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 14: 107-112 [107]

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [190,pl. 86,figs 1-3]

Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375. [74,pl. 28E-F]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [125,pl. 27, figs 2, 4, 6, 7; pl. 26A, fig. 2]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021 OLIVOIDEA 02-Feb-2012 MOVED Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
28-Nov-2011 MODIFIED