Species Notovoluta verconis (Tate, 1892)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta verconis Tate, R. 1892. Descriptions of some new species of marine Mollusca from Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 15(2): 125-132 [125, pl. 1, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D442, Yankalilla Bay, St. Lawrence Gulf (South Australia).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

20-40 m , 40 m; sponges and coral substrates.

 

General References

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [211,pl. 105, figs 3-4]

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. [169,pl. 72H, 72I]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [116,pl. 22, fig. 11a-b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [257, pl. 707] (Verco's Volute)

 

History of changes

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