Species Cassidula (Cassidula) aurisfelis (Bruguière, 1792)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bulimus aurisfelis Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [343].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost (possibly MNHP), unknown locality.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific; Barrow Island, WA to Yeppoon, QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria, N coast
  • Queensland: Gulf of Carpentaria, NE coast
  • Western Australia: N coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, supralittoral.

 

General References

Wells, F. 1997. A review of the Northern Australian species of the genera Cassidula and Ellobium. pp. 213-229 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. [214-216]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)