Species Ataxocerithium serotinum (Adams, 1855)

• 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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Loch, I. 1992. Ataxocerithium. Australian Shell News 78: 1-3

 

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]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [109,111]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [257]

 

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)
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