Species Mysticoncha wilsoni (Smith, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lamellaria wilsoni Smith, E.A. 1886. Description of a new species of Lamellaria from South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 58: 270-271 [270].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Port Phillip Bay, South Australia [Victoria].
• Caledoniella contusiformis Basedow, H. 1905. On naticoid genera Lamellaria and Caledoniella from South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29: 181-186 [183].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Backstairs Passage, St. Vincent Gulf, South Australia, 25 fathoms.
• Caledoniella contusiformis pulchra Basedow, H. 1905. On naticoid genera Lamellaria and Caledoniella from South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29: 181-186 [185, pl. 28, fig. 3] [as Caledoniella contusiformis var. pulchra Basedow, 1905].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, St. Vincent Gulf, South Australia, 25 fathoms.
• Caledoniella contusiformis labyrinthina Basedow, H. 1905. On naticoid genera Lamellaria and Caledoniella from South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29: 181-186.
• Caledoniella confusiformis testudinis Basedow, 1905.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Allan, J. 1936. Mysticoncha, a new generic name for Caledoniella Basedow, non Souverbie. Records of the Australian Museum 19(6): 391-396, pls 25-26 [393]

 

Generic Combinations

• Caledoniella pulchra (Basedow, 1905). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1959. Chapter 5. South Australian Gastropoda. Marine, Estuarine, land and Freshwater. pp. 332-448 in Cotton, B.C. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [367]
• Lamellaria pulchra (Basedow, 1905). —
  Wilson, B. 1998. Superfamily Velutinoidea. pp. 786-790 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [789]
• Mysticoncha wilsoni (Smith, 1886). —
  Allan, J. 1936. Mysticoncha, a new generic name for Caledoniella Basedow, non Souverbie. Records of the Australian Museum 19(6): 391-396, pls 25-26 [393]
• Marseniopsis wilsoni (Smith, 1886). —
  Ludbrook, N.H. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1989. Chitons, Gastropods and Bivalves. pp. 504- 724, 785 in Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Part II. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printing Division. [785]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

 

General References

Allan, J. 1936. Mysticoncha, a new generic name for Caledoniella Basedow, non Souverbie. Records of the Australian Museum 19(6): 391-396, pls 25-26 [393-396, pl. 25]

Ludbrook, N.H. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1989. Chitons, Gastropods and Bivalves. pp. 504- 724, 785 in Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Part II. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printing Division. [785]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [213]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [138, fig. 3] (Wilson's Lamellaria)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	10-Oct-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	VELUTINOIDEA	03-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		27-Feb-2012	MODIFIED