Species Cassis fimbriata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cassis fimbriata Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 2 pp. 321-686. [596, pl. 43, figs 7-8].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mariannes (error) = Albany, Western Australia.
• Cassis bicarinata Jonas, J.H. 1838. Diagnosen einiger neuen Conchylien - Arten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 1 5: 341-344 [343, pl. 10, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, China, error = Gulf of St. Vincent, South Australia.
• Cassis bicarinata decresensis Hedley, C. 1923. Notes on Some Australian Cassis. Records of the Australian Museum 14: 46-48 [47] [as Cassis bicarinata var. decresensis Hedley, 1923].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.30803 dry, off Kangaroo Island., South Australia, Australia [35°30'0"S, 137°0'0"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Hypocassis bicarinata (Jonas, 1839). —
  Iredale, T. 1927. A review of Australian helmet shells (Family Cassididae - Phylum Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 15: 321-354 [330] (New combination of synonym)
• Hypocassis fimbriata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Iredale, T. 1927. A review of Australian helmet shells (Family Cassididae - Phylum Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 15: 321-354 [329] (New combination)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Beach, continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 180 m.

 

General References

Abbott, R.T. 1968. The helmet shells of the world (Cassidae). Part 1. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(9): 7-201 [61-63, pl. 4, figs 1-4, pl. 37]

Cotton, B.C. 1945. Southern Australian Gastropoda. Part 1. Streptoneura. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 69(1): 150-171 [167-168] (as Hypocassis bicarinata)

Hedley, C. 1923. Notes on Some Australian Cassis. Records of the Australian Museum 14: 46-48 [46, pl. 8, fig. 2]

Illert, C.R. 1980. South Australian Helmet Feeding. Of Sea and Shore 11: 141-142

Iredale, T. 1927. A review of Australian helmet shells (Family Cassididae - Phylum Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 15: 321-354 [329-330]

Kreipl, K. 1997. Recent Cassidae. Weisbaden : Verlag Christa Hemman 151 pp., pls 1-24. [18, pl. 5, figs 8-8b]

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1986. Seashells of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 207 pp. [79]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [230, pl. 38, figs 8a-c]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [68, pl. 48, figs 1a-b]

 

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. [117] (as Hypocassis bicarinata) (Bicarinated Helmet)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [186] (Fimbriate 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		18-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED