General References

Bouchet, P., Kantor, Y.I., Sysoev, A. & Puillandre, N. 2011. A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies 77(3): 273–308 [286-289]

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [257]

History of changes

• Aforia Dall, W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredgings, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879–80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake'. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 18: 1–492, pls 10–40 [10, 99].

  Type species:

   Pleurotoma circinata Dall, 1873 by original designation.
• Irenosyrinx Dall, W.H. 1908. Report on the dredging operations of the west coast of Central America, to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Comm. Steamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.M., commanding, XXXVIII. and Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific … etc. XV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 43: 205–487, pls 1–22 [257].

  Type species:

   Pleurotoma goodei Dall, 1889 by original designation.
• Danilacarina Bozzetti, 1997.

Distribution

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Southern Province (8)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Dall, W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredgings, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879–80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake'. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 18: 1–492, pls 10–40 [10, 99]

Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [229-230]

History of changes

• Pleurotoma (Surcula) lepta Watson, R.B. 1881. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Parts VIII-X. Pleurotomidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15: 388-475 [391] [junior homonym; of Pleurotoma lepta Edwards, 1861].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH (The original description gives the collection locality as "Challanger Station 157. "Southern Ocean. SE of Australia. 1950 fathoms 55°55'S 108°35'E". However, that lat. and long. is not SE of Australia. Hedley (1922) amended that latitude to 53.55 S, and gave the locality (with a lack of accuracy not typical of Hedley) as "south-west Australia", when he meant "south-west of Australia").

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sysoev, A.V. & Kantor, Yu.I. 1987. Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: species composition, systematics, and functional morphology of the digestive system. Veliger 30: 105–126

Generic Combinations

• Marshallena lepta (Watson, 1881). —
  Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324 [371, pl. 281, fig. 3]
• Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881). —
  Sysoev, A.V. & Kantor, Yu.I. 1987. Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: species composition, systematics, and functional morphology of the digestive system. Veliger 30: 105–126

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

Ecological Descriptors

Bathyal, continental rise, marine.

General References

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [254]

Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324 [371, pl. 281, fig. 3]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [554]

Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [288]

History of changes

• Surcula magnifica Strebel, H. 1908. Die Gastropoden. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903 6(1): 1-112 [19, pl.2, figs 23-a-d].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SSMNH Type 1328 (Swedish South Polar Exp. 1901-1903), Stn 8, Graham Region, 360 m [64°03'S, 56°37'W].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Engl, W. 2012. Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim : Conchbooks 402 pp. [179, pl. 73, fig. 2a].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Engl, W. 2012. Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim : Conchbooks 402 pp. [179, pl. 73, figs 2a–b]

Generic Combinations

• Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908). —
  Powell, A.W.B. 1951. Antarctic and subantarctic Mollusca. Pelecypoda and Gastropoda. Discovery Reports 26: 47–196 [167-168]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-Antarctic; islands of the Scotia Arc and South Sandwich Islands

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [231]

Tucker, J. 2010. Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908). Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds). The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS). Accessed on 2011-11-21. http://www.scarmarbin.be/rams.php?p=taxdetails&id=197026

History of changes

• Aforia ((Aforia)) moskalevi Sysoev, A.V. & Kantor, Yu.I. 1987. Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: species composition, systematics, and functional morphology of the digestive system. Veliger 30: 105–126 [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMMU Lc-5360 (Col: RV Dmitry Mendeleev, station 1314, trawl Sigsbee, 3010–3030 m), South-West Pacific [59°58′S, 158°07′E].
  Paratype(s) ZMMU Lc-5361, South-West Pacific [59°58′S, 158°07′E].

Distribution

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Southern Province (8)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Aforia multispiralis Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [231-233].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 860145, Eltanin station 426: Off South Shetland Islands in 809-1116 m [62°27'S 57°58'W].
• Danilacarina elenae Bozzetti, L. 1997. Description of a new genus and a new species (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) from the Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean. World Shells 23: 42–44 [42-44].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiese, V. 2001. Comments on a "new" turrid species from Kerguelen. Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 18: 33–34 [33-34]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Off Antarctic Peninsula; Bransfield Strait; off South Shetland Islands and South Orkneys; off Amery Ice shelf

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental slope, marine.

General References

Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [231-233]

Engl, W. 2012. Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim : Conchbooks 402 pp. [180, pl. 73 figs 3a-c]

Tucker, J. 2010. Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds). The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS). Accessed on 2011-11-21. http://www.scarmarbin.be/rams.php?p=taxdetails&id=197027

History of changes

• Cochlespira Conrad, 1865.

  Type species:

   Pleurotoma cristata Conrad, 1847 by monotypy.
• Ancistrosyrinx Dall, W.H. 1881. American work in the Department of Recent Mollusca during the year 1880. American Naturalist 15(9): 704–718 [718].
• Coronasyrinx Powell, A.W.B. 1944. The Australian Tertiary Mollusca of the family Turridae. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 3(1): 1–68 [22].

  Type species:

   Coronasyrinx venusta Powell, 1944 by original designation.
• Pagodasyrinx Shuto, T. 1969. Neogene gastropods from Panay Island, the Philippines. Memoires of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University 19(1): 1-250 [190].

  Type species:

   Pleurotoma granulata E.A. Smith, 1904 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Bouchet, P., Kantor, Y.I., Sysoev, A. & Puillandre, N. 2011. A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies 77(3): 273–308 [289]

Long, D.C. 1981. Late Eocene and early Oligocene Turridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata) of the Brown's Creek and Glen Aire Clays, Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 42: 15–55 [29]

Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23 [42, pl. 5, figs 3-6]

Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324 [393]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [187]

History of changes

• Cochlespira beuteli Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324 [404, pl. 316].

  Type data:

   Holotype AIM, NE of Cape Moreton, in 68 fathoms.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 400 m

General References

Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324 [404, pl. 316]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [123]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [187, pl. 40, fig. 14]

History of changes

• Comispira Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E. & Puillandre, N. 2018. New and unusual deep-water Conoidea revised with shell, radula and DNA character. Ruthenica 28: 47–82 [48].

  Type species:

   Leucosyrinx mai Li & Li, 2008 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10)

History of changes

• Comispira candida Kantor, Y., Hallan, A., & Criscione, F. 2022. Integrative taxonomy reveals new Australian species of the deep-water snail genera Comispira (Conoidea: Cochlespiridae) and Leucosyrinx (Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae). Molluscan Research 42: 229-247 [11].
  Zoobank Registration Number:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F8CF2364–DC9D–4D1C–9776–B50FBB5B2E2

  Type data:

   Holotype AMS C.557029, Central north, TAS [44°09′ S, 147°10.8′ E].
  Paratype(s) AMS C.487249 (1060–1060 m), Huon, off southern TAS [44°18′ S, 147° 07.2′ E]; AMS C.557021 (1392–1448 m), Flat SE of Pedra, TAS [44°09.6′ S, 146°10.2′ E]; AMS C.271203 (1218–1223 m), Flat Matsuyker, TAS [44°09.6′ S, 146°10.2′ E]; AMS numerous (965–941 m), "Baseline 14", TAS [44°06.6′ S, 146° 12.6′ E]; AMS C.271204 (568–560 m), "Baseline 29", TAS [44° 05.4′ S, 146°41.4′ E]; AMS numerous (1443–1422 m), Flat area south of Brians, TAS [44°14.4′ S, 147°17.4′ E].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Sibogasyrinx Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324.

  Type species:

   Surcula pyramidalis Schepman, 1913 by original designation.

Distribution

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Kantor, Y. & Puillandre, N. 2021. Rare, deep-water and similar: revision of Sibogasyrinx (Conoidea: Cochlespiridae). European Journal of Taxonomy 773: 19-60

History of changes

• Sibogasyrinx clausura Kantor, Y. & Puillandre, N. 2021. Rare, deep-water and similar: revision of Sibogasyrinx (Conoidea: Cochlespiridae). European Journal of Taxonomy 773: 19-60 [48].
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:27ED0BF0-C78A-41E1-9064-E3EB0492864A

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN MNHN-IM-2013-48256 (depth 963–970 m; KANADEEP, stn CP4964), NEW CALEDONIA, Coral Sea, Coriolis Bank [21°20′ S, 157°55′ E].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Also found in the Coral Sea (New Caledonia) and Solomon Islands

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

History of changes