Species Austromitra tasmanica (Tenison-Woods, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra tasmanica Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [139].

  Type data:

   Holotype TMH E-761 (old No. TM-5316), Tasmania, Australia.
• Mitra cericosta Laseron, C. 1951. Notes on the New South Wales Mitras, with special reference to their protoconchs. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 335-343, text figs 1-11 [text fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.65641 dry, off Crookhaven, New South Wales, Australia [34°55'1.2'S,150°54'0'E].
• Austromitra bucklandi Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of south eastern Australia including descriptions of new genus Pillarginella, six new marine species and two subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 25: 177–210, 1 pl. [Date published 1 May 1962] [192, text fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F-20727, Twofold Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 10 fathoms.
• Austromitra bucklandi bassiana Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of south eastern Australia including descriptions of new genus Pillarginella, six new marine species and two subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 25: 177–210, 1 pl. [Date published 1 May 1962] [192, text fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F-20729, 18 miles E. of Lakes Entrance, Victoria, 15 fathoms.

 

Generic Combinations

• Austromitra tasmanica (Tenison-Woods, 1876). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [161]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190 [57] (as [possible] colour/sculptural variant of Austromitra analogica)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1980. Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent temperate species of the family Costellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 16: 109-169 [162]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [386]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [161, pl. 36, fig. 20]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	COSTELLARIIDAE	12-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		09-Nov-2011	MODIFIED