Genus Argobuccinum Herrmannsen, 1846

Museums

Regional Maps

• Argobuccinum Deshayes, G.P. 1830. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 2, Part 1 i-vii, 256 pp.

  Type species:

   Murex argus Gmelin, 1791 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Beu, A.G. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama paleontology projects and uplift of the Central American isthmus. Bulletin of American Paleontology 377-378. 1-550.
• Gondwanula Finlay, H.J. 1926. A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 57: 320-485 pls 18-23 [Issued separately 23 Dec 1926; but Vol. 57 issued 10 March, 1927] [399].

  Type species:

   Bursa tumida Dunker, 1862 by original designation.
• Mediargo Terry, J.S. 1968. Mediargo, a new Tertiary genus in the Family Cymatiidae. The Veliger 11: 42-44.

  Type species:

   Gyrineum mediocre Dall, 1909 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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)

General References

Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp. [13]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [241]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	17-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED