Species Benthofascis biconica (Hedley, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bathytoma biconica Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [385, fig. 98].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.16448 dry, sand to mud, 2.5-3 mls offshore in Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, Australia [34°52'4.8"S,151°48'10.8"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Benthofascis biconica (Hedley, 1903). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [182, pl. 38, fig. 9]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

9-284 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Benthofascis biconica (Hedley, 1903). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Turridae/Pages/Benthofascis_biconica.htm (date accessed 22/11/2011)

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [357, fig. 14]

Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12. [11, pl. 2, fig. 33]

Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1–6 [2]

Tucker, J.K., Tenorio, M.J. & Stahlschmidt, P. 2011. The genus Benthofascis (Gastropoda: Conoidea): A revision with descriptions of new species. Zootaxa 2796: 1-14 [3-5, figs 1A-F, 4A-D]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [182, pl. 38, fig. 9]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	14-Nov-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		30-Jun-2016	MODIFIED