Species Acirsa morchi (Angas, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scala morchi Angas, G.F. 1871. Descriptions of thirty-four new species of shells from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 13–20 [12 June 1871] [15, pl. 1, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1870.7.5.10, dredged near the “Sow and Pigs”, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Scalaria (Psychrosoma) erronea Tapparone-Canefri, C. 1876. Rectifications dans la nomenclature de quelques espèces du genre Scalaria. Journal de Conchyliologie 24: 152-156 [155].
• Plastiscala morchi bentha Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [303, pl. 22, fig. 23].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA C16342, off Wattamolla, NSW, 99–108 m (54–59 fathoms).
• Plastiscala morchi profundior Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [303, pl. 22, fig. 22].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA C24420, 37 km (23 miles) east of Sydney, NSW, 457 m (250 fathoms).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. 2015. Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa 3907(1): 1-188 [108]

 

Generic Combinations

• Plastiscala morchi (Angas, 1871). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [140]
• Acirsa morchi (Angas, 1871). —
  Beu, A.G. 2011. Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41(1): 1-153
• Plastiscala morchi (Angas, 1871).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Japan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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 Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 457 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2008. Plastiscala morchi (Angas, 1871). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Epitoniidae/Pages/Plastiscala_morchi%20.htm (date accessed 8/3/2012)

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 [51]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [115]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [64]

Nakayama, T. 2003. A review of northwest Pacific Epitoniids (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Monographs of marine mollusca No. 6. Leiden, The Netherlands : Backhuys Publishers pp. 1-143. [87, pl. 3, fig. 8]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [140, fig. 433]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	12-Sep-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	26-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	11-Sep-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED