Genus Amaea H. & A. Adams, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amaea Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1853. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts I-VIII) pp. 1-256, pls 1-32. [223].

  Type species:

   Scalaria magnifica Sowerby, 1844 by subsequent designation, see Cossmann, M. 1912. Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. 1-215 pp. [Volume 9] [25].
• Scalina Conrad, T.A. 1865. Catalogue of the Eocene and Oligocene Testacea of the United States. American Journal of Conchology 1: 1-35 [27] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Scalaria staminea Conrad, 1860 by subsequent designation, see Palmer, K.V.W 1937. The Claibornian Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and dibranchiate Cephalopoda of the southern United States. Bulletin of American Paleontology 7(32): 1–730, pls. 1–90 [102].
• Ferminoscala Dall, W.H. 1908. Report on the dredging operations of the west coast of Central America, to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Comm. Steamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.M., commanding, XXXVIII. and Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific … etc. XV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 43: 205–487, pls 1–22 [315] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Epitonium (Ferminoscala) ferminianum Dall, 1908 by original designation.

 

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 [20]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

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. [11, 18]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	18-Dec-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED