Genus Charonia Gistel, 1847

Museums

Regional Maps

• Charonia Gistel, J. 1847. [Descriptions]. p. 191 in Gistel, J. & Bromme, J. & F. (eds). Handbuch der Nasturgeschichte, aller drei Reiche, für Lehrer and Lernende, für Schule und Haus. Stuttgart : Hoffmann. [559].

  Type species:

   Murex tritonis Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy (Charonia tritonis tritonis Linnaeus, 1758).

  Secondary source:

   Gistel, J. 1848. Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs für höhere schulen bearbeitet. Stuttgart xvi 216 pp., 32 pls. [170].
• Tritonium Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [junior homonym; not Tritonium O.F. Müller, 1776].

  Type species:

   Murex tritonis Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation.
• Triton Montfort, P.D. de 1810. Conchyliologie Systematique, et Classification Methodique des Coquilles. Paris : F. Schoell Tome 2 676 + 16 pp. [junior homonym; Invalid: junior homonym of Triton Linnaeus, 1758].

  Type species:

   Murex tritonis Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Triton (Buccinatorium) Mörch, O.A.L. 1877. Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium imprimus insularum danicarum (contin). Malakozoologische Blätter 24: 14-66.

  Type species:

   Triton nobile Conrad, 1849 by subsequent designation (Triton variegatum Lamarck, 1816).
• Triton (Semiranella) Gregorio, A. de 1880. Fauna di S. Giovanni Ilarione (Parisiano). Parte 1, Cefalopodi e Gasteropodi, fasc. 1. Palermo : P. Montaine xxviii, 106 pp., 7 pls, map.

  Type species:

   Triton (Semiranella) gemmellari de Gergorio, 1880 by original designation (Charonia lampas Linnaeus, 1758).
• Septa Dall, W.H. & Simpson, C.T. 1901. The Mollusca of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 1: 351-524 [416] [not Septa Perry, 1810].
• Eutritonium Cossmann, 1904 [objective synonym; Revue Critique de Paléozoologie, 8(2): 115; Nom. nov. pro Tritonium Röding, 1798 [but attributed by Cossmann to Link, 1807], non O.F. Müller, 1776].

  Type species:

   Murex tritonis Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [66]

Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120 [90]

Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp. [43]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [243]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	19-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	17-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED