Species Seila crocea (Angas, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerithium cereum Sowerby, G.B. (ed.) 1854. Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2 pp. 439-899. [880, pl. 34, fig. 244,245] [synonymy from (AMS L)].
• Cerithiopsis crocea Angas, G.F. 1871. Descriptions of thirty-four new species of shells from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 13–20 [12 June 1871] [16, pl. 1, fig. 13] [according to (PB1211) belongs in Notoseila].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW.
• Cerithiopsis atkinsoni Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [139].
• Cerithiopsis johnstoni Petterd, W. 1884. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Journal of Conchology 4: 135-145 [142].
• Cerithiopsis crocea marmorea 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] [47, pl. 2, fig. 43] [as Cerithiopsis crocea var. marmorea Odhner, 1917].

 

Generic Combinations

• Seila crocea (Angas, 1871). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [261, text fig.]
• Notoseila crocea (Angas, 1871). —
  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 [45]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

31-201 m

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1951. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, family Cerithiopsidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(4): 383-396 [391]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [363]

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 [45]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [261]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TRIPHOROIDEA	15-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		06-Feb-2015	MODIFIED