Species Afrolittorina praetermissa (May, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Littorina praetermissa May, W.L 1909. Additions to the Tasmanian Molluscan fauna. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1908: 53-59, pl. 6 [Date published April 1909] [57, pl. 6, fig. 3].

 

Generic Combinations

• Littorina (Austrolittorina) praetermissa May, 1909. —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [146]
• Melarapha praetermissa (May, 1909). —
  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 [38]
• Nodilittorina (Austrolittorina) praetermissa (May, 1909). —
  Reid, D.G. 2002. The genus Nodilittorina von Martens, 1897 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the eastern Pacific Ocean, with a discussion of biogeographic provinces of the rocky-shore fauna. The Veliger 45(2): 85-170 [154]
• Afrolittorina praetermissa (May, 1909). —
  Reid, D.G. & Williams, S.T. 2004. The subfamily Littorininae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the temperate Southern Hemisphere: The genera Nodilittorina, Austrolittorina and Afrolittorina. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 75-122 [111]
• Littorina (Littoraria) praetermissa May, 1909. —
  Rosewater, J. 1970. The family Littorinidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The subfamily Littorininae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(11): 417-506 [423]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Littorina paludinella Reeve, 1857 [misidentification]. —
  Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1902. Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Part V. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 14(2): 85-138 [92]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocky shore.

Extra Ecological Information

See Reid (2002) for extensive discussion of habitat

 

General References

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 [38]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [87, 89]

Phillips, D.A.B., Handreck, C., Bock, P.E., Burn, R., Smith, B.J. & Staples, D.A. (eds) 1984. Coastal Invertebrates of Victoria: an atlas of selected species. Melbourne : Marine Research Group of Victoria & Museum of Victoria 168 pp. [45]

Ponder, W.F. & Rosewater, J. 1979. Rectifications in the nomenclature of some Indo-Pacific Littorinidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 92(4): 773-782 [775]

Reid, D.G. 2002. Morphological review and phylogenetic analysis of Nodilittorina (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 68: 259-281

Reid, D.G. 2002. The genus Nodilittorina von Martens, 1897 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the eastern Pacific Ocean, with a discussion of biogeographic provinces of the rocky-shore fauna. The Veliger 45(2): 85-170

Reid, D.G. & Williams, S.T. 2004. The subfamily Littorininae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the temperate Southern Hemisphere: The genera Nodilittorina, Austrolittorina and Afrolittorina. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 75-122 [111-116, Figs 17E,F, 22–24, 25C–E]

Rosewater, J. 1970. The family Littorinidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The subfamily Littorininae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(11): 417-506 [445]

Williams, S.T., Reid, D.G. & Littlewood, D.T.J. 2003. A molecular phylogeny of the Littorininae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae): unequal evolutionary rates, morphological parallelism, and biogeography of the Southern Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28: 60-86

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [146, pl. 18, fig. 4a-b]

 

Common Name References

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [87] (Checked Australwink)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINOIDEA	13-Feb-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		25-Jan-2012	MODIFIED