Species Anachis atkinsoni (Tenison-Woods, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mangelia atkinsoni Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [141].
• Columbella speciosa Angas, G.F. 1877. Descriptions of two genera and twenty species of marine shells from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 34-40, pl. 5 [35, pl. 5, fig. 3].
• Pyrene dolicha Verco, J.C. 1910. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 34: 115-145 [141, pl. 29, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, SAMA D.13496, Gulf of St. Vincent, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 [365]

 

Generic Combinations

• Anachis atkinsoni (Tenison-Woods, 1876). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [98]
• Anachis dolicha (Verco, 1910).
• Macrozafra dolicha (Verco, 1910). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1959. Chapter 5. South Australian Gastropoda. Marine, Estuarine, land and Freshwater. pp. 332-448 in Cotton, B.C. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [381]

 

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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Beechey, D.L. 2007. Anachis atkinsoni (Tenison-Woods, 1875). Seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Columbellidae/Pages/Anachis_atkinsoni.htm

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Australian Recent and Tertiary Species of the Molluscan Family Pyrenidae. Adelaide : Privately published. [4]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [98]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	03-Oct-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		28-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
		11-Jul-2016	MODIFIED