Species Cerithidea decollata (Linnaeus, 1767)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex decollata Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Tomus I. Regnum Animale(pars 2) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766–68], pp. 533–1327. [1226].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 20130229, SE Pemba Bay, Cabo Delgado Prov., Mozambique.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Reid, D.G. 2014. The genus Cerithidea Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region. Zootaxa 3775(1): 001-065 [43, Fig. 13J-M].

 

Generic Combinations

• Cerithidea decollata (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Vannini, M., Mrabu, E., Cannicci, S., Rorandelli, R. & Fratini, S. 2006. Tree-climbing behaviour of Cerithidea decollata, a western Indian Ocean mangrove gastropod (Mollusca: Potamididae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 86: 1429-1436 [1431]
  Reid, D.G., Dyal, P., Lozouet, P., Glaubrecht, M. & Williams, S.T. 2008. Mudwhelks and mangroves: The evolutionary history of an ecological association (Gastropoda: Potamididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 680-699 [680]
  Reid, D.G. 2014. The genus Cerithidea Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region. Zootaxa 3775(1): 001-065 [43, figs 9, 13A-M]
• Cerithidea (Cerithidea) decollata (Linnaeus, 1767). —
  Thiele, J. 1929. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 1(Part 1) 376 pp. [206–207, fig. 203 (radula)]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea, east Africa

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, mangroves, marine, mud bottom.

 

General References

Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [10]

Reid, D.G. 2014. The genus Cerithidea Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region. Zootaxa 3775(1): 001-065 [43]

Vannini, M., Mrabu, E., Cannicci, S., Rorandelli, R. & Fratini, S. 2006. Tree-climbing behaviour of Cerithidea decollata, a western Indian Ocean mangrove gastropod (Mollusca: Potamididae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 86: 1429-1436 [1429-1435]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	POTAMIDIDAE	08-Nov-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		08-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
		19-Feb-2013	MODIFIED