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Species Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

Australian Mud Whelk, Southern Mud Creeper

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Algal substrate, estuary, herbivore, intertidal, mangroves, marine, mud flats, sand, sand flats, shallow water, sheltered.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually among Zostera weed

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2005. Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Batillariidae/Pages/Batillaria_australis.htm (date accessed 27-9-11)

Bouchet, P. 8 Jan 2013. Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446433 (Accessed on 2017-03-28)

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]

MacIntyre, R.J. 1961. Larval development of Velacumantus australis. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 86: 183-184 [183]

McMichael, D.F. 1960. Shells of the Australian sea-shore. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 127 pp., 287 figs. [Date published December] [68]

Ozawa, T., Köhler, F., Reid, D.G. & Glaubrecht, M. 2009. Tethyan relicts on continental coastlines of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and Australasia: molecular phylogeny and fossil record of batillariid gastropods (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea). Zoologica Scripta 38(5): 503-525 [504-520]

Phillips, D.A.B., Handreck, C., Bock, P.E., Burn, R., Smith, B.J. & Staples, D.A. (eds) 1984. Coastal Invertebrates of Victoria: an atlas of selected species. Melbourne : Marine Research Group of Victoria & Museum of Victoria 168 pp. [48]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [114, pl. 15; fig. 11]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021 CERITHIOIDEA 30-Oct-2018 MODIFIED Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
01-Jun-2021 BATILLARIIDAE 13-Jan-2015 MODIFIED Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
20-Sep-2011 MODIFIED