Subspecies Scabricola sowerbyi melvilli (Sowerby, 1882)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra melvilli Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1882. Descriptions of new species of shells in the collection of Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882: 117-121 [118, pl. 5, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMW.
• Mitra (Nebularia) sowerbyi kingae Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 9: 195-204 [195].

  Type data:

   Holotype Lot No. 84, W. of Wasir I., W. Wokam, Aru Is., Moluccas, Indonesia, 11-22 fms.
• Scabricola (Scabricola) backae Cernohorsky, W.O. 1973. Description of new Western Australian Mitridae and Vexillidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 10: 133-142 [133, figs 1-5] [re-assigned to Mitra].

  Type data:

   Holotype Flinders Bay, Augusta, SW Asutralia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Mitra (Nebularia) sowerbyi melvilli Sowerby, 1882. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [150]
• Scabricola sowerbyi melvilli (Sowerby, 1882).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Range is all of eastern and northern Western Australia and Arafura Sea to eastern PNG

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [420] (as Mitra sowerbyi kingae)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164 [14, pl. 10]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [150]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	04-May-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED