Species Bedeva flindersi (Adams & Angas, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Purpura flindersi Adams, S. & Angas, G.F. 1863. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii [421, pl. 37, fig. 22].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1870.10.26.87, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
• Trophon levis Verco, J.C. 1895. Description of new species of marine Mollusca of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19: 84-94 [87, pl. 2, figs 5-5a].

  Type data:

   Holotype Backstairs Passage, South Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Haustrum flindersi (Adams & Angas, 1863).
• Lepsiella flindersi (Adams & Angas, 1863). —
  Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [179]
• Bedeva flindersi (Adams & Angas, 1863).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, intertidal, marine, predator, rocks, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sheltered habitats.

General References

Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii

Barco, A., Marshall, B., Houart, R. & Oliverio, M. 2015. Molecular phylogenetics of Haustrinae and Pagodulinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) with a focus on New Zealand species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 81(4): 476-488

Beu, A.G. 2004. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Muricidae. Royal Society of South Australia, Malacological Section, Publication 8. 2 pls, 8 unnumbered [no. 18] (as Emozamia levis)

Marshall, B. 2016. Bedeva flindersi (A. Adams & Angas, 1864. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=869740 (Accessed on 2017-06-14)

Tan, K.S. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australian and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Journal of Natural History 37: 911-1028 [1006-1010]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [43, pl. 5, fig. 15]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [92, pl. 61, fig. 11]

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Muricidae. Royal Society of South Australia, Malacological Section, Publication 8. 2 pls, 8 unnumbered [no. 18] (as Emozamia levis) (Smooth Emozamia)

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