Species Turritella captiva Hedley, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turritella captiva Hedley, C. 1907. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland, part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 476–513, pls 16–21 [500, pl. 17, fig. 26].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.18809 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Capricorn Group, Masthead Island, Queensland, Australia [23°31'58.8'S, 151°45'0'E].
• Turritella declivis Adams, A. & Reeve, L. 1850. Mollusca. In, Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve Vol. 3. [48, pl. 12. fig. 10] [non S.African sp].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, China Sea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Herbert, D.G. 2013. Turritella declivis Adams & Reeve, in Reeve, 1849 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) – a South African not an Australian species, and a characteristic component of the Agulhas Bank benthos. African Zoology 48(2): 412-417 [Date published Oct] [412-416]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Gazameda declivis (Adams & Reeve, 1850) Garrard, 1972 [S.African sp., synonymized erroneously with T. captiva]. —
  Garrard, T.A. 1972. A review of the Australian Recent and Tertiary Turritellidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 2(3): 267-338 [311]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific. The distribution of the species in Australia is unclear. See Garrard (1972).

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Garrard, T.A. 1972. A review of the Australian Recent and Tertiary Turritellidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 2(3): 267-338 [311, pl. 28, fig. 12; pl. 30, fig. 5]

Herbert, D.G. 2013. Turritella declivis Adams & Reeve, in Reeve, 1849 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) – a South African not an Australian species, and a characteristic component of the Agulhas Bank benthos. African Zoology 48(2): 412-417 [Date published Oct] [412-413]

Vos, C. & Bouchet, P. 2014. Turritella captiva. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=746744 (Accessed on 26 Apr 2017)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [139, pl. 14, fig. 12]

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