Species Architectonica maxima (Philippi, 1849)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Solarium maximum Philippi, R.A. 1849. Centuria tertia testaceorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 5(11): 161-176 [170].

 

Generic Combinations

• Architectonica maxima (Philippi, 1849). —
  Kira, T. 1954. Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 1 viii 172 pp. 67 pls, 24. [24, pl. 12, fig. 7]
• Architectonica (Architectonica) maxima (Philippi, 1849). —
  Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [26, pl. 2, fig. 7]
• Solarium (Architectonica) maximum Philippi, 1849. —
  Hanley, S. 1863. Monograph of the recent species of the genus Solarium of Lamarck. 227-246, pls 250-254 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or Monographs of Genera of Shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 3. [229, pl. 250, figs 5-6]
• Solarium (Solarium) maximum Philippi, 1849. —
  Marshall, W.B. 1887. Monograph of the family Solariidae. pp. 3-32, pls 1-6 in Tryon, G.W. (ed.). Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls. [9, pl. 3, figs 31-32]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Solarium maximum auct. [misidentification. Not Solarium maximum Philippi, 1849. Is Adelphotectonica reevei Hanley, 1902]. —
  Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [349, fig. 73]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Temperate and Tropical Indo-West Pacific, Eastern Indian Ocean, Philippines; Bieler, 1993: distribution map fig. 42, p. 55. 'Indian Ocean to western and central Pacific (Society Islands). Records from Madagascar, Australia and New Zealand in need of verification'

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

'most depth records between 10 and 165 m'

 

General References

Bieler, R. 1993. Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 1-377 [55]

Garrard, T.A. 1977 [1978]. A revision of Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 31(13): 506-584 [published 31 October 1978, cover date 30 September 1977] [512]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [97, fig 35 A-C]

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [26]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [261, pl. 713] (Large Sundial)

 

History of changes

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