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Species Vexillum (Costellaria) exasperatum (Gmelin, 1791)

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific. Wilson (1994) gave the range as Cartier Island to southern Queensland, but there are insufficient records to support a continuous range across northern Australia. Norfolk Island record AMS C.31130; Coral Sea record AMS C.374807


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, coral reef, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

Diet includes various polychaetes and gastropods

 

General References

Arnaud, J.P., Berthault, C., Jeanpierre, R., Martin, J.C. & Martin, P. 2002. Costellariidae et Mitridae de Nouvelle Calédonie. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie. Supplément 100: 52 pp. [6]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190 [54]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1981. Revision of J. Hervier's type-specimens of Mitracea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Loyalty Islands. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Section A, Zoologie, biologie et écologie animale [Paris, published 1979-1996] 1 3: 93-109 [97]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1983. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Part 11. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 20: 185-207 [194] (type locality, as Vexillum (Costellaria) ochracea)

Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(2): 179-259 [205-7,212]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [50]

Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1901. The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893-1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(ii): 327-460 pls xxi-xxiv [422]

Odhner, N.H. 1919. Contribution à la faune malacologique de Madagascar. Arkiv för Zoologi 12(6): 1-52 [Date published 29 Dec 1919] [38]

Oostingh, C.H. 1925. Report on a collection of recent shells from Obi and Halmahera, Molluccas. Mededeelingen van de Landbouwhoogeschool te Wageningen 29(1): 1–362 [168]

Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 2. Of Sea and Shore 22(4): 221-235 [223]

Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 3. Of Sea and Shore 23(1): 4-14 [12]

Schepman, M.M. 1911. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 4: Rhachiglossa. pp. 247-364, pls 18-24 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Monograph 49. [287-8]

Smith, E.A. 1903. Marine Mollusca. (pp. 589-630, pls. XXXV-XXXVI) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : University Press Vol. II(Part II) pp. 589–698, pls. XXXV-XLVIII). [605]

Taylor, J.D. 1986. Diets of sand living predatory gastropods at Piti Bay, Guam. Asian Marine Biology 3: 47-58 [49] (Gut contents recovered (diet includes polychaetes and gastropods))

Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51 [47]

Turner, H. 1989. Ungewöhnliche und neue Mitroidea aus dem Indopazifik. Teil 1. Club Conchylia Informationen 21(5/6): 30-62

Wils, E. & Verbinnen, G. 2002. Red Sea Mollusca: Part 12. Class Gastropoda; Family: Costellariidae. Gloria Maris 41(1-2): 29-37 [32]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [164, pl. 36, figs 23a-b]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021 COSTELLARIIDAE 19-Aug-2015 MODIFIED Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
09-Nov-2011 MODIFIED