Species Clypeomorus pellucida (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerithium pellucidum Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, H. 1848. Atlas d'Histoire Naturelle Zoologie, Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Oceanie … Mollusques et Zoophytes. Paris plates 9, 11-25. [Date published March: plates 13, 15, 18, 20 not published] [pl. 23, figs 24, 25].

  Type data:

   Holotype Solomons.

  Secondary source:

   Rousseau, L. 1854. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée , exécuté ... pendant ... 1837-1840, sous le commandemant de M.J. Dumont d'Urville ... publié ... sous la direction supérieure de M. Jacquinot, etc. 5: Zoologie. Description des mollusques, coquilles et zoophytes. Paris : Publisher unknown 132 pp. [101].
• Cerithium patulum Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186. [871, pl. 179, fig. 74].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, Ilo Ilo, Panay, Philippines.
• Cerithium gibberosum Frauenfeld, G.R. von 1867. Mollusken. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 2(3): 1-16 [7-8, pl. 1, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype Nicobar Islands.
• Cerithium echinatiformis Martin, K. 1884. Mollusca, Glossophora, Gasteropoda. pp. 43-184 in . Palaeontologische Ergebnisse von Tiefbohrungen auf Java, nebst allgemeineren Studien über das Tertiär von Java, Timor and einiger anderer Inseln. Sammlung des Geologischen Reichs-Museums in Leiden, First Series 3(2-3): 43-184, pls1-9 [153, pl. 8, fig. 150].

  Type data:

   Holotype 12000, Fatu Lilib, Timor, Pliocene.
• Cerithium depauperata Dautzenberg, P. & Fischer, H. 1905. Liste des mollusques récoltés par M. le Capitaine de Frégate Blaise au Tonkin et description d'espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 53: 85-234 [126].

 

Generic Combinations

• Clypeomorus patulum (Sowerby, 1855). —
  Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [63]
• Clypeomorus pellucida (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1852) [new combination]. —
  Houbrick, R.S. 1985. Genus Clypeomorus Jousseaume (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 403: 1-131 [63]
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [120, pl. 17, fig. 21 a-b]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cerithium gibberulum Frauenfeld sic. —
  Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls. [133]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Nicobar Islands to New Caledonia. Also Qld region 40 (AMS C.383275; region 41 (AMS C.383271).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

High intertidal, intertidal, mangroves, marine.

 

General References

Eguchi, M. & Shirai, S. 1977. Ecological encyclopaedia of the marine animals of the Ryukyu Islands. Japan : Okinawa Kyoiku Shuppan 636 pp. [275] (as Cerithium patulum Sowerby, 1855)

Houbrick, R.S. 1985. Genus Clypeomorus Jousseaume (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 403: 1-131 [63-69, figs 28-31]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [120, pl. 17; fig. 21 a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIIDAE	19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		27-Sep-2011	MODIFIED