Species Cassidula (Cassidula) nucleus (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix nucleus Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3651].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Cooktown, QLD (as Otaheite).

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [82].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific; Port Essington, NT to Sydney, NSW.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria, N coast
  • Queensland: Central E coast, Gulf of Carpentaria, NE coast

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, mangroves, 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. [220-221]

 

History of changes

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