Species Amaea arabica (Nyst, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scalaria arabica Nyst, H. 1871. Tableau synoptique et synonymique des espèces vivants et fossiles du genre Scalaria. Annales de la Société Malacologique de Belgique 6: 77-147 [92-93].
• Cirsotrema kieneri Tapparone-Canefri, C. 1876. Rectifications dans la nomenclature de quelques espèces du genre Scalaria. Journal de Conchyliologie 24: 152-156 [155].
• Scalaria decussata non Lamarck Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1844. Monograph of the genus Scalaria. 83-108, pl. 32-35 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [103, pl. 35, fig. 140].

  Secondary source:

   Sowerby, G.B. 1874. Monograph of the genus Scalaria. pl. 1-16 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 19. [pl. 15, fig. 114a].
• Scalaria decussata non Lamarck Kiener, L.C. 1838-1839. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Vol. 10(Scalaria, Solarium, Rotella, Delphinula). [21, pl. 7, fig. 23].

 

Generic Combinations

• Amaea arabica (Nyst, 1871). —
  Brown L.G. & Neville B.D. 2011. Nomenclatural notes on Amaea arabica (Nyst, 1871) comb. nov. and Cirsotrema fimbriolatum (Melvill, 1897) (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae), two similar species from the Indo-Pacific faunal province. Novapex 12(3-4): 81-86 [82]
• Amaea (Scalina) kieneri (Tapparone-Canefri, 1876). —
  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. [21, pl. 20, figs 1-3]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea, south to Mauritius, east to Queensland.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 30 m.

 

General References

Bouchet, P. 2011. Amaea arabica (Nyst, 1871). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585215 (Accessed on 2015-08-28)

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 [39, 62, 91, 140]

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [1]

Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1901. The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893-1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(ii): 327-460 pls xxi-xxiv [356]

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. [21, pl. 20, figs 1-3]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [82] (as Amaea (Amaea) decussata Lamarck, 1804)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [274, pl. 44, fig. 3]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	EPITONIOIDEA	28-Aug-2015	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall