Species Septa rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex rubecula Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [749].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Philippine Islands.
• Septa scarlatina Perry, G. 1810. Arcana, or the Museum of Natural History; containing the most recent discovered objects. London : George Smeeton pl. I-XLVIII. [5, pl. 2, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Neotype Philippine Islands.

 

Generic Combinations

• Septa rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  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 [54]
• Cymatium (Septa) rubeculum (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [248, pl. 42, figs 15a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

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

Intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Beu, A.G. 1987. Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae. Pt 2. Descriptions of 14 new Indo-West Pacific species and subspecies, with revisions of related taxa. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13: 273-355 [290]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1967. The Bursidae, Cymatiidae and Colubrariidae of Fiji. Veliger 9(3): 310-329 [321, pl. 44, fig. 13, text fig. 11]

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [116, figs 347, 352]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [12, fig. 17]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [223, fig. 79D]

Ladd, H.S. 1977. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 533: iv 84 pp., pls 1-23 [34, pl. 11, fig. 8]

Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Triton. pls 1-20 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 9, figs 29a-d]

Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [67, pl. 7, fig. 11]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [304, fig. 169]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [248]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [78, pl. 53, figs 11, 11a]

 

Common Name References

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. (species number: G1586) (Shojora)

Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Triton. pls 1-20 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 9, figs 29a-d] (Robin-red-breast Triton)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	08-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	12-Jul-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED