Species Austrocochlea diminuta (Hedley, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thalotia tricingulata Adams, A. 1853. Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 150-192 [175].
• Monodonta diminuta Hedley, C. 1912. Descriptions of some new or noteworthy shells in the Australian Museum. Records of the Australian Museum 8: 131-160 [137, pl. 41, fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.14368 dry, Gulf of Carpentaria, beaches around Mapoon, Queensland, Australia [11°58'1.2'S, 141°52'58.8'E].

Generic Combinations

• Austrocochlea diminuta (Hedley, 1912).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 258–339 [278] (states that no authentic specimen, figure or description exists for Thalotia tricingulata, and suggest writing the name off as unrecognicable)

Hedley, C. 1918. Narrative of an expedition of exploration in North Western Australia by Herbert Basedow. Special Report. Mollusca. Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch 18: 263-283 [273]

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