Subspecies Clypeomorus petrosa petrosa (Wood, 1828)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Strombus petrosus Wood, W. 1828. Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system. London : Taylor Supplement, pp. 1-59, pls 1-8. [13, 34, pl. 4, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, East Indies, here restricted to Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji.
• Cerithium janellii 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. 24, figs 19-22].

  Type data:

   Holotype Vavao.

  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. [104].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Houbrick, R.S. 1985. Genus Clypeomorus Jousseaume (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 403: 1-131 [70] (see for complete synonymy)

 

Generic Combinations

• Clypeomorus petrosa petrosa (Wood, 1828) [new combination]. —
  Houbrick, R.S. 1985. Genus Clypeomorus Jousseaume (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 403: 1-131 [70]
• Cerithium petrosum (Wood, 1828). —
  Sowerby, G.B. (ed.) 1854. Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2 pp. 439-899. [871, pl. 182, figs 171-172]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Strombus tuberculatus auct. —
  Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Tomus I. Regnum Animale(pars 2) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766–68], pp. 533–1327. [1213, no.514]
• Cerithium petrosus auct. —
  Eguchi, M. & Shirai, S. 1977. Ecological encyclopaedia of the marine animals of the Ryukyu Islands. Japan : Okinawa Kyoiku Shuppan 636 pp. [275]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Thailand to Samoa

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocks, rocky shore, sand.

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2005. Clypeomorus petrosa (Wood, 1828). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cerithiidae/Pages/Clypeomorus_petrosa.htm (date accessed 4-10-11)

Houbrick, R.S. 1985. Genus Clypeomorus Jousseaume (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 403: 1-131 [70-77, figs 32, 33b&d, 34, 35]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [121]

 

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