History of changes

• Cylichnidae Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 2(Parts XVI-XVIII) pp. 1-92, pls 56-72. [9].

  Type genus:

   Cylichna Lovén, 1846.

Introduction

The shells in this family are either cylindrical or barrel shaped, the aperture as long or almost as long as the shell, usually with a depressed or short spire. All species are infaunal, and this habitat is reflected in the drab coloured shells and animals. The animals are small, about one quarter of the shell length, with a pair of rounded lobes projecting rearwards on to the front of the shell. As a general rule, cylichnids have three gastral plates (usually a mirror image pair and one smaller to much smaller) for crushing and grinding their food, and the radula has at least a large sickle-shaped denticulate lateral tooth each side of the radular row mid line, and marginal teeth may also be present. Cylichnids are often common on intertidal and estuarine mud flats; and there are many subtidal and deeper water species, both named and unnamed. Compiled from Burn (in press).

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CYLICHNIDAE: Tornatina voluta Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 — Quoy, J. M. C. & Gaimard, J. P. 1833. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie 2. Paris : J. Tastu pp. 321-686. (original combination Bulla voluta described); Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [370]

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [949]

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

History of changes

• Adamnestia Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [333].

  Type species:

   Adamnestia peroniana Iredale, 1936 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

History of changes

• Bulla arachis 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. [361].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, King George Sound, WA.
• Bulla regularis Gould, A.A. 1859. Descriptions of shells collected in the North Pacific Exploring Expedition under Captains Ringgold and Rodgers. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 138–142 [140].
• Adamnestia peroniana Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [333].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [4]

Generic Combinations

• Adamnestia arachis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833).
• Cylichna arachis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits, etc. Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 185–233 [Date published 14 Feb. 1867] [226]

Distribution

States

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

0–200 m.

General References

Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits, etc. Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 185–233 [Date published 14 Feb. 1867] [226] (as Cylichna arachis)

History of changes

• Cylichna Lovén, S.L 1846. Index molluscorum litora Scandinaviae occidentalia habitantium. 1–28 pp. [10].

  Type species:

   Bulla cylindracea Pennant, 1777 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

History of changes

• Cylichna collyria Melvill, J.C. 1906. Descriptions of thirty-one Gastropoda and one scaphopod from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, dredged by Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1902-1904. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7: 69-80, pls 7-8 [79].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [171]

History of changes

• Cylichna crispula Watson, R.B. 1883. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Part XVIII. Order Opisthobranchia, Milne-Edwards, Family Tornatellidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 17: 284-340.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [171]

History of changes

• Bulla decussata Adams, A. 1850. Monograph of the family Bullidae. pp. 553–608 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of Recent shells. London Vol. 2. [594, pl. cxxv, fig. 147].

Generic Combinations

• Cylichna decussata (A. Adams, 1850).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [370]

History of changes

• Bulla nitida Adams, A. 1850. Monograph of the family Bullidae. pp. 553–608 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of Recent shells. London Vol. 2. [589, pl.cxxv, fig. 127].

Generic Combinations

• Cylichna nitida (A. Adams, 1850).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [171]

History of changes

• Bulla strigella Adams, A. 1850. Monograph of the family Bullidae. pp. 553–608 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of Recent shells. London Vol. 2. [592, pl. cxxv, fig. 141].

Generic Combinations

• Cylichna strigella (A. Adams, 1850).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [370]

History of changes

• Cylichna thetidis Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [395].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Manning River, NSW, 48 m.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

20–200 m.

History of changes

• Scaphander Montfort, P.D. de 1810. Conchyliologie Systematique, et Classification Methodique des Coquilles. Paris : F. Schoell Tome 2 676 + 16 pp. [334].

  Type species:

   Bulla lignaria Linnaeus, 1758 (= Scaphander lignarius (Linnaeus, 1758)) by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

General References

Siegwald, J. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2024. Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-60 [7]

History of changes

• Scaphander amygdalus Siegwald, J. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2024. Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-60 [42, Figs 8, 28, 29; Table 2].
  Zoobank Registration Number:77914A80-336C- 4D73-9155-1E7782C0D529

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.563070, Hunter Commonwealth Marine Reserve, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Off NSW north coast; temperate, SW Pacific (New Zealand)

IMCRA

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

History of changes

• Scaphander cornus Siegwald, J. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2024. Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-60 [45, Figs 3, 30, 31; Table 2].
  Zoobank Registration Number:BA92D17E-7185- 487F-A1E1-88CDDCBF6BD5

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.590968, East Gippsland Commonwealth Marine Reserve, VIC.
  Paratype(s) AM C.563069, Bass Strait.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Off southern NSW and eastern VIC; tropical/temperate, SW Pacific (New Caledonia)

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

History of changes

• Scaphander illecebrosus Iredale, T. 1925. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 14(4): 243-270 [Date published 9 April] [269, pl. 42, fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, 32 km east of Babel Island, Flinders Island, 120 m.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

150 m.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Siegwald, J. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2024. Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-60 [30, Figs 10, 18; Table 2]

History of changes

• Scaphander interruptus Dall, W.H. 1890. Scientific results of the explorations of the U.S. Fish Commision steamer "Albatross" no. 7. Preliminary report of the collection of Mollusca and Brachiopoda obtained in 1887-88. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 12(773): 219-362 [297, pl. 12, fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 97075, Chile [45°35'00"S, 75°55'00" W].

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Off southern NSW and eastern VIC; temperate, S Pacific (New Zealand, Chile)

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

General References

Siegwald, J. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2024. Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-60 [18, Figs 6−8; Table 2]

History of changes

• Scaphander japonicus A. Adams, 1862.
• Scaphander multistriatus Brazier, J. 1877 [imprint 1878]. Continuation of the Mollusca collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2(1): 41-53.

  Secondary source:

   Bouchet, P. 2010. Scaphander japonicus A. Adams, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=511930 [on 2011-09-27].

Generic Combinations

• Nipponoscaphander japonicus (A. Adams, 1862).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Philine multistriata Brazier, 1877 [misidentification]. —
  Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. (in Checklist of Great Barrier Reef Opistobranchia)

Distribution

States

Queensland

History of changes

• Scaphander meridionalis Siegwald, J., Pastorino, G., Oskars, T. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2020. A new species of the deep-sea genus Scaphander (Gastropoda, Cephalaspidea) from the Mar del Plata submarine canyon off Argentina. Bulletin of Marine Science 96(1): 111-126 [120, Figs. 1–3, Tables 1–4].
  Zoobank Registration Number:50A77997-0535-42F5-B6F4-B23507C28EEC

  Type data:

   Holotype MACN In 42431, Argentina [38°4.646 'S, 53°34.772 'W to 38°1.586 'S, 53°39.972 'W].
  Paratype(s) ZMBN 127881 & 127882 3 specimens, Argentina [38°4.646 'S, 53°34.772 'W to 38°1.586 'S, 53°39.972 'W].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Off northern NSW to eastern TAS; temperate, SW Pacific, S Atlantic (Argentina)

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12)

General References

Siegwald, J. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2024. Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-60 [39, Figs 15, 26, 27; Table 2]

History of changes

• Scaphander mundus Watson, R.B. 1883. Mollusca of the 'Challenger' Expedition. Part XX. The Journal of the Linnean Society of London 17: 341-346 [342-343].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHML 1887.2.9.2181 2 specimens, Stn. 191, Aru Islands, west of Papua [5°41'00"S, 134°04'00"E].
• Scaphander alatus Dall, W.H. 1895. Report on the Mollusca and Brachiopoda dredged in deep water, chiefly near the Hawaiian Islands, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species from Northwest America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 17: 675-733, pl. 23-32 [676, pl. 27, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 107161, Hawaii [21°09'00"N, 157°53'00" W].
• Scaphander vicinus Smith, E.A. 1906. Natural History Notes from R.I.M.S. 'Investigator'- Series III., No. 10. On Mollusca from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18(106): 245-264 [continued from p. 175] [248].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHML 1906.7.21.4–9 6 specimens, Sri Lanka [7°28'00"N, 79°19'30"E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Coral Sea; tropical, W Pacific (New Caledonia, Philippines, Taiwan)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18)

General References

Siegwald, J. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2024. Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-60 [8, Figs 1–3; Table 2]

History of changes

• Scaphander obnubilus Siegwald, J. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2024. Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-60 [47, Figs 15, 32, 33; Table 2].
  Zoobank Registration Number:68312AEC-383B-431B-A5DD-3609B2342F66

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.482192, Bass Strait.
  Paratype(s) AM C.519273, Jervis Commonwealth Marine Reserve, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Southern NSW to eastern Bass Strait, temperate

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12)

History of changes

• Sphaerocylichna Thiele, J. 1925. Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. II. Teil. pp. in Chun, C. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Damfper "Valdivia" 1898–1899. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 17(2) 348 pp., 34 pls. [242].

  Type species:

   Cylichna atyoides Thiele, 1925 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

History of changes

• Bulla incommoda Smith, E.A. 1891. Descriptions of new species of shells from the 'Challenger' Expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891: 436–445 [442].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Sydney, NSW, 870 m.
• Austrocylichna lagena Burn, R. 1978. A review of Australian species of Austrocylichna, Nipponatys, Cylichnatys and Diniatys (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Haminoeidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 93–112 [99, fig. 9].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [4]

Generic Combinations

• Spaerocylichna incommoda (E. A. Smith, 1891).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

250–870 m.

History of changes

• Tornatina Adams, A. 1850. Monograph of the family Bullidae. pp. 553–608 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of Recent shells. London Vol. 2. [554].

  Type species:

   Retusa gaimardi Finlay, 1927 by original designation.

Introduction

Willan (2005) identified Tornatina cf. decorata Pilsbry, 1904 which may represent an undescribed species.

Distribution

States

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

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Willan, R.C. 2005. The molluscan fauna from the emergent reefs of the northernmost Sahul Shelf, Timor Sea — Ashmore, Cartier and Hibernia Reefs; biodiversity and zoogeography. pp. 51-81 in Russell, B.C. et al. (eds). Understanding the Cultural and Natural Heritage values and Management Challenges of the Ashmore Region. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Suppl. 1: 248 pp. [74]

History of changes

• Utriculus (Tortatina) acrobeles Watson, R.B. 1883. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Part XVIII. Order Opisthobranchia, Milne-Edwards, Family Tornatellidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 17: 284-340.

Generic Combinations

• Tornatina acrobeles (Watson, 1883).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [171]

History of changes

• Tornatina apicina Gould, A.A. 1859. Descriptions of shells collected in the North Pacific Exploring Expedition under Captains Ringgold and Rodgers. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 138–142 [139].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sydney Harbour, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

0–150 m.

General References

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [4]

History of changes

• Utriculus apiculatus Tate, R. 1879. Descriptions of the marine Gastropoda of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 2: 138–140 [138].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, King George Sound, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Tornatina apiculata (Tate, 1879).
• Retusa apiculata (Tate, 1879). —
  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1933. South Australian shells (Including descriptions of new genus and species). Part 7. South Australian Naturalist 14(3): 72–108 [75]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

0–5 m.

General References

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [4]

History of changes

• Bulla biplex Adams, A. 1850. Monograph of the family Bullidae. pp. 553–608 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of Recent shells. London Vol. 2. [p. 568, pi. 121, fig. 33].

Generic Combinations

• Tornatina biplex (A. Adams, 1850).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [171]

History of changes

• Tornatina decorata Pilsbry, H.A. 1904. New Japanese marine Mollusca: Gastropoda. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 56: 3-37, pls 1-6 [37, pl. V, fig. 51].

Generic Combinations

• Tornatina voluta (Quoy and Gaimard, 1833).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Japan, Madagascar

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [171]

History of changes

• Bulla eumicra Crosse, H. in Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. 1865. Description d'espèces nouvelles de l'Australie méridionalis. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 38-55 [40, pl. 12, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Spencer Gulf, SA.

Generic Combinations

• Tornatina eumicra (Crosse in Crosse & Fischer, 1865).
• Retusa eumicra (Crosse in Crosse & Fischer, 1865). —
  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1933. South Australian shells (Including descriptions of new genus and species). Part 7. South Australian Naturalist 14(3): 72–108 [75, pl. 1, fig. 3]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

0–50 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

0–50 m.

General References

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1933. South Australian shells (Including descriptions of new genus and species). Part 7. South Australian Naturalist 14(3): 72–108 [75, pl. 1, fig. 3] (as Retusa eumicra)

History of changes

• Tornatina exserta Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [393].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Manning River, NSW, 48 m.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

0–200 m.

General References

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [4]

History of changes

• Bulla gracilis Adams, A. 1850. Monograph of the family Bullidae. pp. 553–608 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of Recent shells. London Vol. 2. [569].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [370]

History of changes

• Tornatina hacketti Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1933. South Australian shells (Including descriptions of new genus and species). Part 7. South Australian Naturalist 14(3): 72–108.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes

• Tornatina hadfieldi Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1896. Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Part II. Journal of Conchology 8(9): 273–315, pls 9–11 [314].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [171]

History of changes

• Tornatina hofmani Angas, G.F. 1877. Description of one genus and twenty-five species of marine shells from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 171-177, pl. 26, figs 26, 27.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes

• Retusa kimberi Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1933. South Australian shells (Including descriptions of new genus and species). Part 7. South Australian Naturalist 14(3): 72–108.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes

• Utriculus (Tornatina) leptekes Watson, R.B. 1883. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Part XVIII. Order Opisthobranchia, Milne-Edwards, Family Tornatellidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 17: 284-340.

Generic Combinations

• Tornatina leptekes (Watson, 1883).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [171]

History of changes

• Bulla planospira Adams, A. 1850. Monograph of the family Bullidae. pp. 553–608 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of Recent shells. London Vol. 2.

Generic Combinations

• Tornatina planospira (A. Adams, 1850).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [171]

History of changes

• Diaphanidae Odhner, N. H. 1914. Ptisanula limnaeoides, a new Arctic opisthobranchiate mollusc, its anatomy and affinities. Arkiv för Zoologi .

  Type genus:

   Diaphana Brown, 1827.

Introduction

Generally small animals with thin fragile transparent shells, into which the body can retract. The head is wider anteriorly, with furrowed margins. The foot is short in those species with external shell, sometime indented in the rear margin, sometimes with an accessory “foot” formed by a posterior fold of the shell mantle showing behind the shell. In species with internal shell, the foot is long and slender, and much wider in front. Compiled from Burn (in press).

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [947]

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

History of changes

• Colpodaspis Sars, M. 1870. Bidrag til Kundskab om Christiania-fjordens Fauna 2. In, Christiania-fjordens Mollusker. [70-74].

  Type species:

   Colpodaspis pusilla M. Sars, 1870 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

History of changes

• Colpodaspis thompsoni Brown, G.H. 1979. An investigation of the anatomy of Colpodaspis pusilla (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) and a description of a new species of Colpodaspis from Tanzanian coastal waters. Journal of Zoology, London 187: 201-221 [217-220].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [17]

History of changes

• Diaphana Brown, T. 1827. Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. W.H. Lizars, Engraver, and D. Lizars, Bookseller, Edinburgh; and S. Highley, Bookseller, London. [pp. i-v systematic index; unpaginated; 52 plates] [pl. 38].

  Type species:

   Diaphana candida Brown, 1827 (=Diaphana minuta Brown, 1827) by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand, Palaearctic Region - Japan

History of changes

• Diaphana brazieri Angas, G.F. 1877. Description of one genus and twenty-five species of marine shells from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 171-177, pl. 26, figs 26, 27 [175, pl. 26, fig. 20].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sow & Pigs Reef, Sydney Harbour, NSW, 9 m.
• Austrodiaphana brazieri Pilsbry, H.A. 1895. Tectibranchiata. 134-436 pp. in Tyron, G.W. (ed.). Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 15. [287, pl. 26, fig. 68].
• Aplustrum brazieri Hedley, C. 1902. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27: 7–29 [16, pl. 3, fig. 36].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [8]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand, ?Japan; 0–600 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [8]

Schiøtte, T. 1998. A taxonomic revision of the genus Diaphana Brown, 1827, including a discussion of the phylogeny and zoogeography of the genus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Steenstrupia 24(1): 77–140

History of changes

• Akera tasmanica Beddome, C.E. 1883. Description of some new marine shells of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1882: 167-170 [Date published 1883] [169].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Old Station, Browns River Road, TAS, 15 m.

Generic Combinations

• Diaphana tasmanica (Beddome, 1883).

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand; 0–10 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [8]

Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1908. On some new species of Victorian marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 21(1): 365-367, pl. 21 [pl. 21, fig. 6-7] (shell figured)

May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. [Date published 31 July 1923] [pl. 46, fig. 15] (shell figured)

Schiøtte, T. 1998. A taxonomic revision of the genus Diaphana Brown, 1827, including a discussion of the phylogeny and zoogeography of the genus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Steenstrupia 24(1): 77–140 [fig. 7D-H, 8B] (shell figured)

History of changes

• Toledonia Dall 1902. Illustrations and descriptions of new, unfigured, or imperfectly known shells, chiefly American, in the US National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 24: 449–566 [512].

  Type species:

   Toledonia perplexa Dall, 1902 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

History of changes

• Toledonia warenella Golding, R.E. 2010. Anatomy in Toledonia warenellai n. sp. (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Diaphanidae) visualized by three-dimensional reconstruction. Invertebrate Biology 129(2): 151-164 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C. 146224 one gold-coated shell, Fingal Bay, Port Stephens, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) AM C.463612, Fingal Bay, Port Stephens, New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Temperate intertidal habitat

History of changes