Species Amalda oblonga (Sowerby, 1830)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ancillaria oblonga Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1830. Monographs of the genera Ancillaria, Ovulum and Pandora. 30 pls in Broderip, W.J. (ed). Species Conchyliorum or concise original descritpions and observations accompanied by figures of all the species. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [7, fig. 38-39].

 

Generic Combinations

• Alocospira oblonga (Sowerby, 1830). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [128]
• Amalda oblonga (Sowerby, 1830). —
  Vervaet, F. & Recourt, P. 2010. Personal communication (with WoRMS). [Expert] (Referenced on WoRMS)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

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 [284] (New to Queensland)

Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [260]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [207]

Vervaet, F. 2013. Amalda oblonga (G. B. Sowerby I, 1830). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=409977 (Accessed on 2015-10-12)

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [128, pl. 29, fig. 9a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	12-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED