Species Ataxocerithium eximium Houbrick, 1987

• Ataxocerithium eximium Houbrick, R.S. 1987. Description of a new, giant Ataxocerithium species from Australia with remarks on the systematic placement of the genus (Prosobranchia: Cerithiopsidae). Nautilus 101: 155-161 [157, fig. 1-16].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.142394 dry, south east of Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

310-605 m.

General References

Loch, I. 1992. Ataxocerithium. Australian Shell News 78: 1-3 [2]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [256]

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