Genus Merica H. & A. Adams, 1854

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• Merica H. & A. Adams, 1854 [the Genera of Recent Mollusca, 1: 277].

  Type species:

   Cancellaria melanostoma Sowerby, 1849 by subsequent designation (Cossmann, 1899, Essais de paléoconchologie comparée, 3: 13).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, 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), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [16]

Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. 2005. Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) — 2nd edition. Zootaxa 1102: 1-161 [15]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [174]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CANCELLARIOIDEA	25-Jan-2012	MOVED
01-Jun-2021		24-Jan-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Nov-2011	MODIFIED