Species Clanculus septenarius (Melvill & Standen, 1899)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calliostoma septenarium Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1899. Report on the marine Mollusca obtained during the first expedition of Prof. A.C. Haddon to the Torres Straits in 1888-89. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 27: 150-206, pls 1-2 [176, pl. 10, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Albany Passage, Torres Strait (Australia), 10 fathoms (18 m).

Generic Combinations

• Pulchrastele septenarium (Melvill & Standen, 1899). —
  Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31 [29 June 1929] [271]
• Astele (Pulchrastele) septenarium (Melvill & Standen, 1899). —
  Keen, A.M. & Cox, L.R. 1960. Trochinae, Calliostomatinae. pp. i-xxiii, 1-351 in Moore, R.C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part I. Mollusca 1. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press xxiii + 351 pp. [I258]
• Clanculus septenarius (Melvill & Standen, 1899). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [88, text fig.]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 46 m

General References

Jansen, P. 1995. A review of the genus Clanculus Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Trochidae) in Australia, with description of a new subspecies and the introduction of a nomen novum. Vita Marina 43(1-2): 39-62 [59, pl. 3, figs 22-24, text fig. 5]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [88, text fig.]

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