Species Colpospira (Colpospira) curialis (Hedley, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turritella (Colpospira) crenulata Donald, J. 1900. On some Recent Gastropoda referred to the family Turritellidae and their supposed relationship to the Murchisoniidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 4(2): 47-55, pl. 5 [52-52, pl. 5, figs 2-2b] [junior homonym; not T. crenulata Nyst, 1843].
• Turritella curialis Hedley, C. 1907. The results of deepsea investigation in the Tasman Sea. II. The expedition of the "Woy Woy". 2. Mollusca from eight hundred fathoms, thirty-five miles east of Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 356-364 [357, pl. 67, fig. 19].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.26623 dry, green ooze, 35 mls east of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'0'S, 152°0'0'E].
• Turritella reevei Cossmann, M. 1912. Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. 1-215 pp. [Volume 9] [119].
• Colpospira joannae Hedley, C. 1923. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XIV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48: 301-316, pls 30-33 [311] [replacement name; for Turritella crenulata Donald, 1900].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Sydney, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Colpospira (Colpospira) curialis (Hedley, 1907). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [137]
• Spirocolpus curialis (Hedley, 1907). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [47]
• Spirocolpus joannae (Hedley, 1923). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [47]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Colpospira curialis (Hedley, 1907). —
  Beechey, D. 2006. Colpospira curialis (Hedley, 1907). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Turritellidae/Pages/Colpospira_curialis.htm

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

176-1550 m

 

General References

Garrard, T.A. 1972. A review of the Australian Recent and Tertiary Turritellidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 2(3): 267-338 [306, pl. 28, figs 4, 5]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [47]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [137]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIOIDEA	23-Oct-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
01-Jun-2021	TURRITELLIDAE	09-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		18-Oct-2011	MODIFIED