Species Semicassis sinuosum (Verco, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cassidea sinuosa Verco, J.C. 1904. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of New Species. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 28: 135-145 [Date published 4 Dec.] [141, pl. 26, figs 7-10, a-c].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D. 13477, Investigator strait, Backstairs Passage, South Australia.
• Antephalium sinuosum angustatum Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1931. South Australian Shell Part 2. South Australian Naturalist 13(1): 5-23 [17, pl. 2, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D. 10171, Backstairs Passage, 20 fathoms, South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Semicassis (Antephalium) sinuosum (Verco, 1904). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [235, pl. 38, figs 4a-b]
• Phalium sinuosum (Verco, 1904). —
  Abbott, R.T. 1968. The helmet shells of the world (Cassidae). Part 1. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(9): 7-201 [148]
• Antephalium sinuosum (Verco, 1904). —
  Iredale, T. 1927. A review of Australian helmet shells (Family Cassididae - Phylum Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 15: 321-354 [353] (New combination)
• Semicassis sinuosum (Verco, 1904).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

In 18-75 m

 

General References

Abbott, R.T. 1968. The helmet shells of the world (Cassidae). Part 1. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(9): 7-201 [148-149]

Kreipl, K. 1997. Recent Cassidae. Weisbaden : Verlag Christa Hemman 151 pp., pls 1-24. [66, pl. 24, figs 81-81a]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [147]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [235, pl. 38, figs 4a-b]

 

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1954. Family Cassididae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 4: 4 pp. [4] (as Antephalium sinuosum) (Curved Helmet, Narrow Helmet)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	24-Jul-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		10-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED