Species Cirsotrema varicosum (Lamarck, 1822)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scalaria varicosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Suite des Gastéropodes. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(2) 232 pp. [Date published Apr. 1822] [227].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mermod, G. & Binder, E. 1963. Les types de la collection Lamarck au Muséum de Genève. Mollusques vivants. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 70(7): 127-172 [163, fig. 228].
• Scala (Cirsotrema) bavayi De Boury, E.A. 1913. Description de Scalidae nouveaux ou peu connus. Journal de Conchyliologie 60(4): 269-322 [280, pl. 10, fig. 6].
• Scalaria abbreviata Sowerby, G.B. 1874. Monograph of the genus Scalaria. pl. 1-16 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 19. [pl. 16, fig. 124].
• Scalaria multiperforata Sowerby, G.B. 1874. Monograph of the genus Scalaria. pl. 1-16 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 19. [pl. 16, fig. 125].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1902.11.26.71, Black River Bay, Mauritius.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) abbreviata (Sowerby, 1874). —
  Australian Museum 2012. Australian Museum collection header label.
• Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) multiperforata (Sowerby, 1874). —
  Australian Museum 2012. Australian Museum collection header label.
• Cirsotrema multiperforata (Sowerby II, 1874). —
  Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. 2015. Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa 3907(1): 1-188 [109]
• Cirsotrema varicosa (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. 2015. Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa 3907(1): 1-188 [157]
• Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) varicosum (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [84]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific. Wilson (1993) gives the range of this species as Abrolhos, WA, northwards around northern Australia to southern Queensland. There are not specimens available to support this continuous range in northern WA and NT. Hawaii, Australia, Japan, to Mozambique and Mauritius

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

20–50 m

 

General References

Blake, A.F. & Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 12. Epitoniacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales. [3]

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [1]

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [50]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [153, fig. 54 D]

Nakayama, T. 2003. A review of northwest Pacific Epitoniids (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Monographs of marine mollusca No. 6. Leiden, The Netherlands : Backhuys Publishers pp. 1-143. [24]

Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [61]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [84, fig. 247]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [34]

 

Common Name 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. [104, fig. 12] (Varicose Ladder Shell)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [200, pl. 561] (Rough Wentletrap)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	12-Sep-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	02-Sep-2015	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
01-Jun-2021		02-Jul-2012	MOVED
01-Jun-2021		02-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED