Species Ceraesignum maximum (Sowerby, 1825)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Serpula maxima Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1825. A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville : arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system: together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species. London : printed by E.J. Stirling for G.B. Sowerby vii, 92 pp. + appendix of xxiv pp. + coloured plates. [23].

 

Generic Combinations

• Dendropoma maxima (Sowerby, 1825). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [171]
• Dendropoma maximum (Sowerby, 1825). —
  Hughes, R.N. & Lewis, A.H. 1974. On the spatial distribution, feeding and reproduction of the vermetid gastropod Dendropoma maximum. Journal of Zoology, London 172: 531-547 [531ff]
• Dendropoma (Dendropoma) maximum (Sowerby, 1825). —
  Keen, A.M. 1961. A proposed reclassification of the gastropod family Vermetidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 7: 183-214 [199]
• Ceraesignum maximum (Sowerby, 1825). —
  Golding, R.E., Bieler, R., Rawlings, T.A. & Collins, T.M. 2014. Deconstructing dendropoma: A systematic revision of a world-wide worm-snail group, with descriptions of new genera (Caenogastropoda: Vermetidae). Malacologia 57: 1-97 [65-68, figs 251-266]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-Pacific, from the east Pacific Ocean to the Red Sea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Bieler, R. & Petit, R.E. 2011. Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa 2948: 1-103 [46]

Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part 1. Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3(7): 395–488, 49 text figs [Date published March 6] [426-7]

Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [111-2]

Morton, J.E. 1965. Form and function in the evolution of the Vermetidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 11: 583-630 [588]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [266]

Wilkins, G.L. 1953. Note on some recently recognised types in the British Museum (Natural History). Designation of 2 lectotypes. Journal of Conchology 23(9): 290-294 [291]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [171]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [174, pl. 505] (Great Coral Worm Shell)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	VERMETOIDEA	23-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		03-Feb-2012	MODIFIED