Species Cyllene sulcata Sowerby, 1859

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyllene sulcata Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1859. Monograph of the genus Cyllene Gray. 77-80, pl. 217 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of Recent shells. London : Sowerby. [77, pl. 217, figs 10-11].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1980106, None (Broome, Western Australia).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28)

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

To at least 50 m.

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1981. Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18: 137-192 [186, figs 87-89, 91]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [225, pl. 50, figs 7-8]

Kaicher, S.D. 1985. Card catalogue of world-wide shells. Pack #41 - Nassariidae Part III. Published by the author: Sally Diana Kaicher, St Petersburg, Florida. Cards 4094 - 4199 pp. [Card 4192]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [77, text fig.]

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