Species Clavus laetus (Hinds, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clavatula laeta Hinds, R.B. 1843. Description of new shells from the collection of Captain Belcher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 1 11: 16–21, 36–46, 255–257 [40].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Straits of Macassar, New Guinea.

 

Generic Combinations

• Drillia (Clavus) laeta (Hinds, 1843). —
  Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1858. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 3 pls 1-138. [91]
• Drillia laeta (Hinds, 1843). —
  Tryon, G.W. 1884. Conidae & Pleurotomidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 6. [186, pl. 9, fig. 32; pl. 11, fig. 87]
• Pleurotoma (Clavus) laeta (Hinds, 1843). —
  Weinkauff, H.C. 1876. Das Genus Pleurotoma. pp. 49-136 in Küster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 4. [55, pl. 12, figs 4, 6]
• Clavus laetus (Hinds, 1843). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [184, pl. 40, figs 4a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [153, pl. 55, fig. 1]

Hinds, R.B. 1844. The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1836–42. London : Smith, Elder & Co. Vol. 2 v + 72 pp., pls 1–21. [20]

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. [346, fig. 115F]

Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [141, pl. 15, fig. N]

Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma. pls 1–18 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1. [pl. 18, fig. 155]

Wells, F.E. 1991. A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Clavus, Plagiostropha, and Tylotiella (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 12: 1-33 [15, pl. 4, figs 1, 2]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [184, pl. 40, figs 4a, b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	22-Nov-2011	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		29-Jun-2016	MODIFIED