Species Bulla quoyii Gray in Dieffenbach, 1843

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bulla quoyii Gray, J.E. 1843. Shells. 396 in Dieffenbach, E. (ed). Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country. London : Murray Vol. 2. [243].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, New Zealand.
• Bulla australis Gray, J.E. 1825. A list and description of some species of shells not taken notice of by Lamarck. Annals of Philosophy ns 9(5): 134-140, 407-415 [May 1825] [408].
• Bulla australis Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Voyages de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe execute par ordre du Roi pendant les annes 1826-1829 sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie 2. Paris : J. Tastu pp. 321-686. [357].
• Bulla tenuissima Sowerby, G.B. 1868. Monograph of the genus Bulla. pl. 1, fig. 4 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 16. [pl. 1, fig. 4].
• Bullaria botanica Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M104].
• Bulla nebulosa Scrhöter, 1804.
• Bulla oblonga Adams, 1850.
• Haminea castanea Adams, 1850.
• Bulla substriata Menke, 1853.
• Quibulla botanica Iredale, 1929.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Malaquias, M.A.E. & Reid, D.G. 2008. Systematic revision of the living species of Bullidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a molecular phylogenetic analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 453-543 [525]

Generic Combinations

• Bulla botanica (Hedley, 1918).

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

0–20 m; New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life, the plants and animals of temperate waters. Kew, Victoria, Australia : Reed Books 544 pp. [283] (photo)

Iredale, T. 1929. Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 337-352, pls 37-38 [349] (as Quibulla botanica)

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [25] (photo: species 10)

Willan, R.C. 1978. The nomenclature of three Pacific Bulla species. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 57–68 [58]

History of changes