Species Turbo (Marmarostoma) perspeciosus (Iredale, 1929)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Senectus perspeciosus Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31 [29 June 1929] [272] [replacement name; for Turbo speciosus Reeve, 1848 (not Megerle, 1824)].
• Turbo speciosus Reeve, L.A. 1848. Monograph of the genus Turbo. pls 1-13 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 4. [pl. 8, sp. 35] [junior homonym; not Turbo speciosus Megerle, 1824].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, New Holland.

Generic Combinations

• Lunella perspeciosa (Iredale, 1929). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [34]
• Turbo (Marmarostoma) perspeciosus (Iredale, 1929). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [106, pl. 12, fig. 2]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northeast Province (18), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine.

General References

Woolacott, L. 1957. Notes on Australian shells. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1955-1956: 112-117, pl. 3 [113-114, figs 3-4] (as Senectus perspeciosus Iredale, 1929)

History of changes