Species Bursina margaritula (Deshayes, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ranella margaritula Deshayes, G.P. 1832. Zoologie. Mollusques. pp. 401-416 in Bélanger, M.C. (ed.). Voyage aux Indes-Orientales, par le nord de l'Europe, les provinces du Caucase, la Géorgie, l'Armenie et la Perse, suivide details topographiques, statistique et autre sur le Pégon, les Isles de Java, de Maurice et de Bourbon, sur le Cap-de-bonne-Espérance et Sainte Hélène. Paris : Arthur Bertrand Vol. 2. [424, pl. 3, figs 13-15].
• Ranella neglecta Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1836. Ranella. pls 84-85, 88-89, 92-93 in Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) (ed). The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby (2nd). [pl. 93, fig. 22].
• Gyrineum pacator Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [214, pl. 23, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.57799 dry, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'0"S, 151°13'58.8"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Bufonaria margaritula (Deshayes, 1832). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [225, pl. 43, figs 3a-c]
• Bursa margaritula (Deshayes, 1832). —
  Schepman, M.M. 1909. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 2. Taenioglossa and Ptenoglossa. 109-231, pls 10-16 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Leiden : Brill Vol. 49. [116]
• Chasmotheca margaritula (Deshayes, 1832). —
  Habe, T. & Kosuge, S. 1966. Shells of the World in Color. Osaka, Japan : Hoikusha Publishing Vol. II: The Tropical Pacific. 194 pp., 68 pls. [45, pl. 16, fig. 5]
• Bursina margaritula (Deshayes, 1832).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, in sandy mud, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

35 m

 

General References

Abbott, R.T. & Dance, S.P. 1982. Compendium of Seashells: a colour guide to more than 4,200 of the world's marine shells. New York : E. P. Dutton pp. i-x, 1-411. [128, text fig.]

Altena, C.O. van Regteren 1942. The marine mollusca of the Kendeng beds (East Java). Gastropoda Part 4 (families Cassididae-Ficidae inclusive). Leidsche Geologische Mededelingen 13: 89-120 [109]

Beu, A.G. 1987. Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae. Pt 2. Descriptions of 14 new Indo-West Pacific species and subspecies, with revisions of related taxa. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13: 273-355 [337, figs 220, 234-244]

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [19]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [12, fig. 21]

Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [214, pl. 23, fig. 3] (as Gyrineum pacator)

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 [55]

Ladd, H.S. 1977. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 533: iv 84 pp., pls 1-23 [36, figs 4-6]

Martin, K. 1899. Die Fossilien von Java auf Grund einer Sammlung von Dr. R.D.M. Verbeek und von anderen. I. Gastropoda. 1899-1906. Leiden : E.J.Brill 325 pp. [146, pl. 23, figs 337-339]

Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Ranella. pls 1-8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 3, fig. 15]

Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls [144, pl. 12, fig. 6]

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1978. An illustrated checklist of marine shelled gastropods from Phuket Island, adjacent mainland and offshore islands, Western Peninsula, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 21: 1-22, 259 figs [12, fig. 171]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [225, pl. 43, figs 3a-c]

 

Common Name References

Abbott, R.T. & Dance, S.P. 1982. Compendium of Seashells: a colour guide to more than 4,200 of the world's marine shells. New York : E. P. Dutton pp. i-x, 1-411. [128, text fig.] (Noble Frog Shell)

Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Ranella. pls 1-8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 3, fig. 15] (The Little Pearled Ranella)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	27-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED