Species Colpospira (Acutospira) smithiana (Donald, 1900)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turritella (Colpospira) smithiana 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, pl. 3, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Sydney, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Colpospira (Acutospira) smithiana (Donald, 1900). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [136]
• Stiracolpus smithianus (Donald, 1900). —
  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 smithiana (Donald, 1900). —
  Beechey, D. 2006. Colpospira smithiana (Donald, 1900). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Turritellidae/Pages/Colpospira_smithiana.htm

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

274-1500 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2006. Colpospira smithiana (Donald, 1900). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Turritellidae/Pages/Colpospira_smithiana.htm (date accessed 9/11/2011)

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 [297, pl. 27, fig. 9]

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. [136]

 

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