Genus Cheilea Modeer, 1793

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cheilea Modeer, A. 1793. Inledning til kunskapen om mäskkräken i allmämhet; 4 Claffen. Snackor, Cochleata. Kongliga Vetenskaps Akademiens Nya Handlingar 14: 83-112 [Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens nya Handlingar, 14: 110; see also Chilea].

  Type species:

   Patella equestris Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy (as given by Woring, 1928).
• Mitrularia Schumacher, 1817.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

General References

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 [44]

Vaught, K.C. 1989. A Classification of the Living Mollusca. Melbourne, Florida : American Malacologists Inc. xii, 195 pp. [31]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [163]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	VANIKOROIDEA	23-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-May-2014	MODIFIED