Species Phalium glaucum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Buccinum glaucum Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [737].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Habitat in O. Asiatico.
• Bezoardica vulgaris Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [248].
• Cassis bezoar Gray, J.E. 1839. Molluscous Animals, and their shells. pp. 101-155, pls 33-44 in Beechey, F.W. (ed.). The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage compiled from the collections and notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition, during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey, R. N., F. R. S., &c. in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28. London : H.G. Bohn. [121].
• Cassidea strigata Shirley, J. 1911. Additions to the marine Mollusca of Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 23(1): 93-102 [98] [juvenile].

 

Generic Combinations

• Phalium glaucum (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [233, pl. 37, figs 13a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific; Australian records are doubtful (Wilson, 1993)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 16 m.

 

General References

Abbott, R.T. 1968. The helmet shells of the world (Cassidae). Part 1. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(9): 7-201 [81-82]

Kreipl, K. 1997. Recent Cassidae. Weisbaden : Verlag Christa Hemman 151 pp., pls 1-24. [37, pl. 13, figs 35-35b]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [233, pl. 37, figs 13a-b] (possibly found in north Queensland)

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. [68, pl. 48, figs 3-3a]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [118] (Glaucous Helmet)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	18-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED