Species Ataxocerithium serotinum (Adams, 1855)
Little Sponge Creeper, Square-mouthed Creeper
- Cerithium serotina Sowerby, G.B. (ed.) 1854. Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2 pp. 439-899. [861, pl. 180, fig. 102] [A. Adams in Sowerby 1855].
Type data:
Status unknown, Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). - Cerithium rhodostoma Sowerby, G.B. (ed.) 1854. Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2 pp. 439-899. [861, pl. 180, fig. 103].
- Cerithium tubulus Dunker, G. 1871. Mollusca nova Musei Godeffroy Hamburgensis. Malakozoologische Blätter 18: 150–175 [152].
- Ataxocerithium conturbatum Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [290, pl. 21, fig. 17].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.60632 dry, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'0"S, 151°13'58.8"E]. - Ataxocerithium scruposum Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [291, pl. 21, fig. 18].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.60634 dry, off Green Cape, New South Wales, Australia.
Generic Combinations
- Ataxocerithium serotinum (Adams, 1855). —
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [256]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, marine, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Living on sponges below tide level; living on "orange finger sponges", "red sponges" and "white sponges"
General References
Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [44]
Loch, I. 1992. Ataxocerithium. Australian Shell News 78: 1-3 [1]
Common Name References
Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [48, pl. 111] (Little Sponge Creeper)
Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [109, 111] (Square-mouthed Creeper)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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07-Feb-2024 | LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975 | 30-Oct-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS) |
01-Jun-2021 | TRIPHOROIDEA | 26-Nov-2013 | MODIFIED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
26-Nov-2013 | MODIFIED |