Family CYSTISCIDAE

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [255]

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [65]

Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408.

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Subfamily CYSTISCINAE

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [255]

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [67]

Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1917. A systematic list of the Marginellidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6 12: 242-266

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Genus Cystiscus Stimpson, 1865

Cystiscus Stimpson, W. 1865. On certain genera and families of zoophagous gastropods. American Journal of Conchology 1(1): 55-64, pls 8, 9 [55].
Type species:
Marginella cystiscus Redfield, 1870 (the name Cystiscus capensis has been treated as a junior secondary homonym of Marginella capensis Krauss, 1848, and renamed Marginella cystiscus Redfield, 1870) by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from eastern Africa to Hawaiian Islands

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northeast Transition (19), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [69]

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [67]

Wakefield, A. & McCleery, T. 2006. Descriptions of new species of pacific Cystiscus Stimpson, 1865 (Gastropoda : Cystiscidae) — Part 1: species with banded mantle patterns. Novapex 7(4, Sp. Iss. SI): 1 [4]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus alternans (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899)

Marginella alternans Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1899. On some new species of Victorian mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 11(2): 179-184, pl. 20 [180, pl. 20, fig. 3].
Marginella multiplicata Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [91].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus alternans (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Cystiscus alternans (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1898). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Cystiscus_alternans.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [208,209]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-002]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus angasi (Crosse, 1870)

Angas's Margin Shell

Marginella angasi Crosse, H. 1870. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie 18: 301-304 [304] [Brazier MS].
Volvaria lubrica Petterd, W. 1884. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Journal of Conchology 4: 135-145 [143].
Marginella minima Petterd, W. 1884. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Journal of Conchology 4: 135-145 [144].
Marginella shorehami Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1899. On some new species of Victorian mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 11(2): 179-184, pl. 20 [179, pl. 20, fig. 2].
Marginella simsoni Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [92].
Marginella ringens May, W.L. 1920. New species of Tasmanian Mollusca, with critical remarks on several described species, and additions to the list. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1919: 55-69 pls 14-17 [Date published 6 Mar 1920] [58, pl. 14, fig. 6].
Marginella erma Cotton, B.C. 1944. Australian margin shells: Marginellidae. South Australian Naturalist 22(4): 9-16 [15].
Marginella amphora Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [46, pl. 6, fig. 43].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM C.103371 dry, off Point Halliday, New South Wales, Australia [32°4'30'S,152°33'0'E].
Marginella angasi melania Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [46, pl. 6, fig. 42] [as Marginella angasi var. melania Laseron, 1948].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM C.103373 dry, under rocks, Sydney, North Harbour, Fairlight, New South Wales, Australia [33°48'10.8'S,151°16'22.8'E].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus angasi (Crosse, 1870). —
Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-002]

Distribution

States

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

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, intertidal, marine, under rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

To 750 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Cystiscus angasi (Crosse, 1870). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Cystiscus_angasi.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [207]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [390]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [63,67]

Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [35]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-002, 009]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [73, pl. 212] (Angas's Margin Shell)

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Species Cystiscus bucca (Tomlin, 1916)

Marginella ovulaeformis Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [91] [non D'Orbigny, 1853].
Marginella ventricosa 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] [369] [non Fischer, 1807].
Marginella bucca Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1916. Notes on Marginella. Journal of Conchology 15(2): 43 [43].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus bucca (Tomlin, 1916). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Phuket

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand.

General References

Grove, S. 2011. Cystiscidae - Cystiscinae: Cystiscus bucca (Tomlin, 1916). A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania website. http://www.molluscsoftasmania.net/Species%20pages/Cystiscus%20bucca.html (date accessed 10/01/2012)

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 [17]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-003]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus connectans (May, 1911)

Marginella connectans May, W.L. 1910. New marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 48: 380-398 [Date published 1911] [387, pl. 14, fig. 11].
Type data:
Holotype TM E628/7969.

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus connectans (May, 1911). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

16-570 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Cystiscus connectans (May, 1911). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Cystiscus_connectans.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [60]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-004]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus cratericula (Tate & May, 1900)

Marginella cratericula Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [91].
Type data:
Syntype(s) D18634, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tas.
Marginella inaequidens May, W.L. 1913. Further additions to the Tasmanian Mollusca. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1912: 41-48 [44, pl. 2, fig. 1].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus cratericula (Tate & May, 1900). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

53-549 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Cystiscus cratericula (Tate & May, 1900). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Cystiscus_cratericula.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [61,64]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [229]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-004, 007]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus cymbalum (Tate, 1878)

Marginella cymbalum Tate, R. 1878. The Recent Marginellidae of South Australia. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide 1877-78: 85-89 [86].
Persicula (Gibberulina) pisiformis Thiele, J. 1930. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. pp. 561-596 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmayer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5. [585, fig. 61].
Type data:
Status unknown, Warnbro Sound, Western Australia.

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus cymbalum (Tate, 1878). —
Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

General References

Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-005]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus flindersi (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899)

Marginella flindersi Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1899. On some new species of Victorian mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 11(2): 179-184, pl. 20 [180, pl. 20, fig. 4].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus flindersi (Prichard & Gatliff, 1899). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-006]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus freycineti (May, 1915)

Marginella freycineti May, W.L. 1915 [1916]. Additions to the Tasmanian Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1915: 75-99 [issued separately 31 December 1915] [86, pl. 2, fig. 9].
Type data:
Holotype TM E636/7977.

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus freycineti (May, 1915). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

55-366 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Cystiscus freycineti (May, 1916). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Cystiscus_freycineti.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [63]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-006]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus garretti Wakefield & McCleery, 2006

Cystiscus garretti Wakefield, A. & McCleery, T. 2006. Descriptions of new species of pacific Cystiscus Stimpson, 1865 (Gastropoda : Cystiscidae) — Part 1: species with banded mantle patterns. Novapex 7(4, Sp. Iss. SI): 1 [4-8, figs 6, 12-16, 65-72, 142-144].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

French Polynesia

IMCRA

Northeast Transition (19), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

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Species Cystiscus halli (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899)

Marginella halli Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1899. On some new species of Victorian mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 11(2): 179-184, pl. 20 [179, pl. 20, fig. 1].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus halli (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand, subtidal.

General References

Grove, S. 2011. Cystiscidae - Cystiscinae: Cystiscus halli (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899). A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania web-site. http://www.molluscsoftasmania.net/Species%20pages/Cystiscus%20halli.html (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-007]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus incerta (May, 1920)

Marginella incerta May, W.L. 1920. New species of Tasmanian Mollusca, with critical remarks on several described species, and additions to the list. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1919: 55-69 pls 14-17 [Date published 6 Mar 1920] [59, pl. 16, fig. 8].
Type data:
Holotype TM E649/7990.

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus incerta (May, 1920). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [64]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-007]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus indiscreta (May, 1911)

Marginella indescreta May, W.L. 1910. New marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 48: 380-398 [Date published 1911] [388, pl. 14, fig. 12].
Type data:
Holotype TM E651/7992.

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus indiscreta (May, 1911). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [64]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-007]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus melwardi (Laseron, 1957)

Euliginella melwardi Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [294, fig. 49].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.103357 dry, 32 km off Point Charles, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia [12°10'1.2'S,130°22'1.2'E].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus melwardi (Laseron, 1957). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-009]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus minutissima (Tenison-Woods, 1876)

Minute Margin Shell

Marginella minutissima Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. On some new species of Tasmanian marine shells. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 27-29 [27].
Marginella pumilio Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 [363].
Marginella nielseni Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [45, pl. 6, fig. 40].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus minutissima (Tenison-Woods, 1876). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]
Ovaginella nielseni (Laseron, 1948). —
Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-010]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

3-200 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Cystiscus minutissimus (Tenison-Woods, 1876). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Cystiscus_minutissima.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [74]

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [208]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-009]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [74, pl. 214] (Minute Margin Shell)

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Species Cystiscus multidentatus (May, 1920)

Marginella multidentata May, W.L. 1920. New species of Tasmanian Mollusca, with critical remarks on several described species, and additions to the list. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1919: 55-69 pls 14-17 [Date published 6 Mar 1920] [59, pl. 16, fig. 7].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus multidentatus (May, 1920). —
Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [343]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

110-1000 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Cystiscus cf. multidentatus (May, 1920). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Cystiscus_cf_multidentatus.htm (date accessed 11/01/2012)

Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [343, 349]

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Species Cystiscus obesulus (May, 1920)

Marginella obesula May, W.L. 1920. New species of Tasmanian Mollusca, with critical remarks on several described species, and additions to the list. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1919: 55-69 pls 14-17 [Date published 6 Mar 1920] [58, pl. 14, fig. 5].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus obesula (May, 1920). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [65]

Vafiadis, P. 2004. Description of the external anatomy of the marine snail Cystiscus obesulus May (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cystiscidae). Victorian Naturalist 121(4): 163-168

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-010]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus opima (Laseron, 1957)

Microginella opima Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [292, fig. 40].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.48715 dry, Torres Strait, off Murray Island, Queensland, Australia [9°54'32.4"S,144°2'38.4"E].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus opima (Laseron, 1957). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

General References

Coovert, G.A. 1999. Revision of the nomenclature of the Kaicher Marginella card packs (Cystiscidae, Marginellidae). Marginella Marginalia 10(3-6): 1-39 [26]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-011]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus problematica (Gatliff & Gabriel, 1916)

Marginella problematica Gatliff, J.H. and Gabriel, C. 1916. Description of a new genus and two new species of Victorian marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 29(1): 104-105, pl. 7 [104, pl. 7, fig. 1].

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus problematica (Gatliff & Gabriel, 1916). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

General References

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-011]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus subauriculata (May, 1915)

Marginella subauriculata May, W.L. 1915 [1916]. Additions to the Tasmanian Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1915: 75-99 [issued separately 31 December 1915] [86, pl. 2, fig. 7].
Type data:
Holotype TM E674/8015.

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus subauriculata (May, 1916). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 132 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Cystiscus subauriculata (May, 1916). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Cystiscus_subauriculata.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [206]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [68]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-014]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus thouinensis (May, 1915)

Marginella thouinensis May, W.L. 1915 [1916]. Additions to the Tasmanian Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1915: 75-99 [issued separately 31 December 1915] [86, pl. 2, fig. 8].
Type data:
Holotype TM E676/8017.

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus thouinensis (May, 1916). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [208]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [65,68]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-014]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Cystiscus tomliniana (May, 1916)

Marginella auriculata May, W.L. 1915 [1916]. Additions to the Tasmanian Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1915: 75-99 [issued separately 31 December 1915] [85, pl. 1, fig. 6] [not Menard de la Groye, 1811].
Marginella tomliniana May, W.L. 1918. New names for Tasmanian Marginellas. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1917: 104 [104].
Type data:
Holotype TM E677/8018.

Generic Combinations

Cystiscus tomliniana (May, 1916). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [58]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-014]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Subfamily PERSICULINAE

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [255]

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [70]

Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1917. A systematic list of the Marginellidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6 12: 242-266

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Genus Canalispira Jousseaume, 1875

Canalispira Jousseaume, 1875 [Revue et Magazin de Zoologie, ser. 3, 3: 168].
Type species:
Canalispira oliveiiaeformis Jousseaume, 1875 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [140-141]

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Species Canalispira attentia (Laseron, 1957)

Baroginella attentia Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [306, fig. 84].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.103377 dry, Torres Strait, off Murray Island, Queensland, Australia [9°54'32.4'S,144°2'38.4'E].

Generic Combinations

Canalispira attentia (Laseron, 1957). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [140-141]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-002]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Canalispira infirma (Laseron, 1957)

Baroginella infirma Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [305, fig. 82].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.48710 dry, Torres Strait, off Murray Island, Queensland, Australia [9°54'32.4'S,144°2'38.4'E].

Generic Combinations

Canalispira infirma (Laseron, 1957). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [140-141]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-007]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Canalispira volunta (Laseron, 1957)

Baroginella volunta Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [305, fig. 83].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.27290 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Cairns Reef lagoon and between Cairns Reef and Hope Island, Queensland, Australia [15°42'0'S,145°30'0'E].

Generic Combinations

Volvarina volunta (Laseron, 1957). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]
Canalispira volunta (Laseron, 1957). —
Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [343]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [343]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-015]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

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Genus Gibberula Swainson, 1840

Gibberula Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [323].
Type species:
Gibberula zonata Swainson, 1840 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [71]

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [73]

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [72]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-008]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Gibberula agapeta (Watson, 1886)

Marginella agapeta 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 [266, pl. 16, fig. 9].
Marginella punicea Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [38, pl. 5, fig. 7].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM C.103367 dry, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia [35°1'58.8'S,150°43'58.8'E].
Marginella quinqueplicata Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [41, pl. 5, fig. 22] [not Lamarck].
Kogomea royana Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [306].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM C.103382 dry, Twofold Bay, New South Wales, Australia [37°4'58.8'S,149°54'0'E].

Generic Combinations

Granula agapeta (Watson, 1886). —
Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]
Gibberula agapeta (Watson, 1886). —
Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [37]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

38-296 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Gibberula agapeta (Watson, 1886). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Gibberula_agapeta.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [205]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [67]

Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]

Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1917. A systematic list of the Marginellidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6 12: 242-266 [247]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-002]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Gibberula compressa (Laseron, 1957)

Phyloginella compressa Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [293, fig. 44].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.32404 dry, Wreck Reef, Bird Island, Australia [22°10'30'S,155°27'39.6'E].

Generic Combinations

Gibberula compressa (Laseron, 1957). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Coral Sea

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-004]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Gibberula deburghi (Adams, 1864)

Marginella deburghi Adams, A. 1864. Description of a new genus and twelve new species of Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 506-509 [509].

Generic Combinations

Gibberula deburghi (Adams, 1864). —
Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [343, 350]
Persicula deburghi (Adams, 1864). —
Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [343, 350]

Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-005]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

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Species Gibberula dentiformis (Thiele, 1930)

Persicula (Gibberula) dentiformis Thiele, J. 1930. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. pp. 561-596 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmayer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5. [584-9, fig. 60].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Australian Museum 2011. Mollusca: loose leaf system. [Marginellidae 5]

Thiele, J. 1930. Die Fauna Südest Australiens. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. Fauna Südwest-Australien 9(8): 580-589 [584-585]

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Species Gibberula diplostreptus (May, 1915)

Marginella biplicata Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [92] [not M. biplicata Krauss, 1852].
Marginella diplostreptus May, W.L. 1915 [1916]. Additions to the Tasmanian Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1915: 75-99 [issued separately 31 December 1915] [76].
Type data:
Syntype(s) D18635, Port Esperance, Tas.
Marginella eucla Cotton, B.C. 1944. Australian margin shells: Marginellidae. South Australian Naturalist 22(4): 9-16 [12, fig. 24].
Marginella baca Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [200, pl. 20].

Generic Combinations

Gibberula diplostreptus (May, 1916). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, subtidal.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [205]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [58]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-005]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Gibberula striata (Laseron, 1957)

Kogomea striata Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [294, fig. 50-1].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.103354 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Michaelmas Cay, Queensland, Australia [16°36'0'S,145°58'58.8'E].

Generic Combinations

Gibberula striata (Laseron, 1957). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-014]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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Species Gibberula subbulbosa (Tate, 1878)

Toothed Margin Shell

Marginella subbulbosa Tate, R. 1878. The Recent Marginellidae of South Australia. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide 1877-78: 85-89 [86].
Type data:
Syntype(s) D13520, Wauraltie (Port Victoria), Yorke Peninsula, S.A.
Marginella beddomei Petterd, W. 1884. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Journal of Conchology 4: 135-145 [143].
Phyloginella simplex Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [292, fig. 42].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.103347 dry, Torres Strait, Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia [10°34'58.8'S,142°13'1.2'E].

Generic Combinations

Gibberula subbulbosa (Tate, 1878). —
Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]

Distribution

States

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

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, intertidal, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 456 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Gibberula subbulbosa (Tate, 1878). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Gibberula_subbulbosa.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Cotton, B.C. 1944. Australian margin shells: Marginellidae. South Australian Naturalist 22(4): 9-16 [13]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [68]

Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-013]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-014]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

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. [177] (Toothed Margin Shell)

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Genus Persicula Schumacher, 1817

Persicula Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [235] [Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés: 71, 235; Swainson, 1835, The elements of modern conchology: 15, has an entry for "Persicula Sw.", without included species. Persicola [Swainson, 1840, A treatise on malacology: 133, 323] is an incorrect subsequent spelling].
Type species:
Persicula variabilis Schumacher, 1817 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [70]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142-143]

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Species Persicula albomaculata (May, 1911)

Marginella albomaculata May, W.L. 1910. New marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 48: 380-398 [Date published 1911] [382, pl. 13, fig. 2].
Type data:
Holotype TM E627/7968.
Marginella concamerata May, W.L. 1918. New names for Tasmanian Marginellas. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1917: 104 [104].

Generic Combinations

Persicula albomaculata (May, 1911). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [58]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

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Species Persicula denansiana (Ancey, 1881)

Marginella (Persicula) denansiana Ancey, C.F. 1881. Coquilles nouvelles ou peu connues. Le Naturaliste 1(1): 510 [510].
Epiginella ablita Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [291, fig. 37].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.103356 dry, off Cape Flattery, Rocky Isle, Queensland, Australia [14°51'0'S,145°28'58.8'E].

Generic Combinations

Persicula denansiana (Ancey, 1881). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

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Species Persicula pulchella (Kiener, 1830)

Flat-topped Margin Shell

Marginella pulchella Kiener, L.C. 1834. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau Vol. 9. [27, pl. 9, fig. 40].
Marginella fulgurata Hedley, C. 1911. Report on the Mollusca obtained by the F.I.S. 'Endeavour' chiefly off Cape Wiles South Australia. Part 1. Zoological Results of the Fisheries Experiments carried out by F.I.S. "Endeavour" 1: 89-114 [110, pl. 7, fig. 31].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM C.31944 dry, 40 ml south of Cape Wiles, South Australia, Australia [35°39'0'S,136°49'58.8'E].
Marginella pulchella minor Bavay, A. 1920. Sables littoraux de Madagascar : Marginelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 65: 163-168 [163] [as Marginella pulchella var. minor Bavay, 1920].
Marginella newmanae Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [199, pl. 20].

Generic Combinations

Persicula pulchella (Kiener, 1834). —
Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [32]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Madagascar

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [210]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [390]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [65]

Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [32]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [228]

Schepman, M.M. 1911. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 4: Rhachiglossa. pp. 247-364, pls 18-24 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Monograph 49. [261]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-012]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

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. [177, fig. 4] (Flat-topped Margin Shell)

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Subfamily GRANULININAE

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [255]

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [73]

Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1917. A systematic list of the Marginellidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6 12: 242-266

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Genus Granulina Jousseaume, 1888

Granulina Jousseaume, F. 1888. Description des Mollusques Recueillis par M. Le Dr. Faurot dans la Mer Rouge et le Golfe D'Aden. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 1(42): 166-223 [191].
Type species:
Marginella pygmaea Issel, 1869 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [74]

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [73]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

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Species Granulina anxia (Hedley, 1909)

Marginella anxia Hedley, C. 1909. Mollusca from the Hope Islands, north Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34(1): 420–466, pls 36–44 [452, pl. 43, fig. 86-7].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.29746 dry, Weary Bay, Queensland, Australia [15°54'0'S,145°22'58.8'E].

Generic Combinations

Granulina anxia (Hedley, 1909). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

General References

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-002]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

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Species Granulina elliottae (Cotton, 1944)

Marginella denticulata Tate, R. 1878. The Recent Marginellidae of South Australia. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide 1877-78: 85-89 [87] [not Link, 1807 nor Conrad, 1830].
Type data:
Syntype(s) D14501, Wauraltie (Port Victoria), Yorke Peninsula, S.A.
Marginella elliottae Cotton, B.C. 1944. Australian margin shells: Marginellidae. South Australian Naturalist 22(4): 9-16 [13].

Generic Combinations

Granulina elliottae (Cotton, 1944). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

General References

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [61]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-005]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

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Species Granulina guttula (Sowerby, 1837)

Erato guttula Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1837. Cypraea. pp. figs 113-161, index in Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) (ed). The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby (2nd). [16, pl. 7, fig. 50].
Marginella angystoma Gaskoin, J.S. 1849. Description of seven new species of Marginella and two of Cypraea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 17: 17-23 [19].
Marginella triplicata Gaskoin, J.S. 1849. Description of seven new species of Marginella and two of Cypraea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 17: 17-23 [19].
Marginella pericalles Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1916. Note on Erato guttula of Sowerby and on M. schepmani, n. n. for M. abyssicola, Schepman. Journal of Conchology 12: 64 [64].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Philippines.

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Australian Museum 2011. Mollusca: loose leaf system. [Marginellidae 6]

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [210]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-007]

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Species Granulina nympha (Henn & Brazier, 1894)

Marginella (Persicula) nympha Henn, A.U. & Brazier, J.W. 1894. List of Mollusca found at Green Point, Watson's Bay, Sydney. With a few remarks upon some of the most interesting species and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 165-182 [168, pl. 14, fig. 2].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM C.2893 dry, deep rock pool, low water spring tide, Sydney, Port Jackson, Watsons Bay, Green Point, New South Wales, Australia [33°50'31.2'S,151°16'30'E].

Generic Combinations

Granulina nympha (Henn & Brazier, 1894). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

Distribution

States

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

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, rock pools, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 64 m

General References

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [229]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-010]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

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Species Granulina vitrea (Laseron, 1957)

Microginella vitrea Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [292, fig. 41].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.103351 dry, Port Curtis, Gladstone, Queensland, Australia [23°55'1.2'S,151°22'58.8'E].

Generic Combinations

Granulina vitrea (Laseron, 1957). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Hawaiian Islands, Kermadec Islands

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, marine, subtidal, tide pools.

General References

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [287]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-015]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

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Genus Pugnus Hedley, 1896

Pugnus Hedley, C. 1896. Description of Pugnus, a New Genus of Ringiculidae, from Sydney Harbour. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 105-106 [74].
Type species:
Pugnus parvus Hedley, 1896 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Coovert, G.A. & Coovert, H.K. 1995. Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. Nautilus 109(2-3): 43-110 [74]

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Species Pugnus parvus Hedley, 1896

Pugnus parvus Hedley, C. 1896. Description of Pugnus, a New Genus of Ringiculidae, from Sydney Harbour. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 105-106 [105, pl. 23 fig.1].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.2524 dry, under stones, low tide, Sydney, North Harbour, Little Manly Beach (Cove), New South Wales, Australia [33°48'28.8"S,151°17'6"E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia.

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 183 m

General References

Australian Museum 2011. Mollusca: loose leaf system.

Beechey, D. 2004. Pugnus parvus (Hedley, 1896). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Pugnus_%20parvus.htm (date accessed 11/01/2012)

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Family CYSTISCIDAE

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Subfamily CYSTISCINAE

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Genus Cystiscus Stimpson, 1865

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Species Cystiscus alternans (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899)

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Species Cystiscus angasi (Crosse, 1870)

Angas's Margin Shell

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Species Cystiscus bucca (Tomlin, 1916)

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Species Cystiscus connectans (May, 1911)

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Species Cystiscus cratericula (Tate & May, 1900)

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Species Cystiscus cymbalum (Tate, 1878)

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Species Cystiscus flindersi (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899)

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