Species Aesopus cassandra (Hedley, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Daphnella cassandra Hedley, C. 1904. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part VIII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29: 182-211 [187-8, pl. 8, fig. 17].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.8973 dry, Sydney, Middle Harbour, Balmoral Beach, New South Wales, Australia [33°49'40.8"S, 151°15'0"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Aesopus cassandra (Hedley, 1904).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Beechey, D.L. 2007. "Aesopus" cassandra (Hedley, 1904). Seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Columbellidae/Pages/Aesopus_cassandra.htm

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Australian Recent and Tertiary Species of the Molluscan Family Pyrenidae. Adelaide : Privately published. [1]

Hedley, C. 1907. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland, part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 476–513, pls 16–21 [484]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [84]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	03-Sep-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED