Species Benthofascis sarcinula (Hedley, 1905)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bathytoma sarcinula Hedley, C. 1905. Mollusca from One Hundred and Eleven Fathoms, East of Cape Byron, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 41-54 figs 5-22 [53, fig. 21].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.19871 dry, 12.5 ml east of Cape Byron, New South Wales, Australia [28°37'58.8"S,153°52'1.2"E].

Generic Combinations

• Benthofascis sarcinula (Hedley, 1905). —
  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 [77, no. 1584]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

202 m

General References

Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1922. Additions to and alterations in the catalogue of Victorian marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 34(2): 128–161 [139]

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [357, fig. 15]

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 [77, no. 1584]

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. 34]

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 [5-6, figs 1G-N]

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

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