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Species Chrysostoma paradoxum (Born, 1778)

Orange-mouthed Top Shell, Paradox Trochus, Sarasa-dama


Compiler and date details

September 2014 - Des Beechey & Winston F. Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Reviewed by Bruce Marshall (Tepapa, New Zealand) & Claude Vilvens (Belgium).

December 2012 - Des Beechey, Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Stephanie Baccarella, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Also Coral Sea region 18 (AMS C.324862)


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, intertidal, marine.

 

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [64]

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [172, fig. 495]

Crosse, H. 1866. Note complémentaire sur l'opercule du Chrysostoma nicobaricum. Journal de Conchyliologie 14: 116-117 [116]

Fischer, P. 1875. Genres Calcar, Trochus, Xenophora, Tectarius et Risella. pp. 1-96 in Keiner, L.C. (ed.). Spécies general et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 11. [68 and pl. 36, fig. 5] (as Trochus nicobaricus)

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [12, pl. 4, fig. 26]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [2]

MacNeil, F.S. 1960. Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 339: i-iv, 1-148, 19 pls [25]

Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [31, pl. 1, fig. 18]

Schepman, M.M. 1908. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Rhipidoglossa and Docoglossa. With an appendix by Prof. R. Bergh [Pectinobranchiata]. Siboga-Expéditie Report 49a(1): pp. 1-108, 9 pls [41]

Troschel, F.H. 1879. Das Gebiss der Schnecken, zur Begründung einer Natürlichen Classification [by J. Thiele, written after Troschel's death]. Berlin : Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Vol. II 237 pp. [221, pl. 21, fig. 7]

Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [92]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
29-Aug-2014 TROCHIDAE 23-Sep-2011 MOVED Mr Des Beechey (AM) Stephanie Baccarella (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Dr Winston Ponder (AM)
18-Aug-2021 21-Sep-2011 MODIFIED
18-Aug-2021 13-Sep-2011 MOVED
08-Sep-2011 MODIFIED