Species Adamnestia arachis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bulla arachis Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Voyages de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe execute par ordre du Roi pendant les annes 1826-1829 sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie 2. Paris : J. Tastu pp. 321-686. [361].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, King George Sound, WA.
• Bulla regularis Gould, A.A. 1859. Descriptions of shells collected in the North Pacific Exploring Expedition under Captains Ringgold and Rodgers. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 138–142 [140].
• Adamnestia peroniana Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [333].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [4]

Generic Combinations

• Adamnestia arachis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833).
• Cylichna arachis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits, etc. Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 185–233 [Date published 14 Feb. 1867] [226]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

0–200 m.

General References

Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits, etc. Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 185–233 [Date published 14 Feb. 1867] [226] (as Cylichna arachis)

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