Species Alaginella geminata (Hedley, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Marginella geminata Hedley, C. 1912. Descriptions of some new or noteworthy shells in the Australian Museum. Records of the Australian Museum 8: 131-160 [145, pl. 42, fig. 28].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.18007 dry, 16 ml east of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia [34°25'1.2'S,151°15'0'E].
  Syntype(s) AM C18007.
• Marginella weedingi Cotton, B.C. 1944. Australian margin shells: Marginellidae. South Australian Naturalist 22(4): 9-16 [16, fig. 31].

  Type data:

   Holotype D14989, Backstairs Passage, S.A.

Generic Combinations

• Alaginella geminata (Hedley, 1912). —
  Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [344]
• Protoginella geminata (Hedley, 1912). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

20-450 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2003. Alaginella geminata (Hedley, 1912). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Marginellidae/Pages/Alaginella_geminata.htm (date accessed 18/01/2012)

Coovert, G.A. 1999. Revision of the nomenclature of the Kaicher Marginella card packs (Cystiscidae, Marginellidae). Marginella Marginalia 10(3-6): 1-39 [15]

Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [344]

Hedley, C. 1912. Descriptions of some new or noteworthy shells in the Australian Museum. Records of the Australian Museum 8: 131-160 [146]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [69]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [228]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-006]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

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