Species Contradusta walkeri (Sowerby, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea walkeri Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1832. Cypraea. pp. 1-18, figs 1-61 in Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) (ed). The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby (2nd) Vol. 1-8. [7, fig. 22].
• Gratiadusta walkeri continens Iredale, T. 1935. Australian cowries. The Australian Zoologist 8(2): 96-135, pl. 8-9 [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.102836 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Whitsunday Passage, off Lindeman Island, Queensland, Australia [20°27'0"S,149°1'58.8"E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Meyer, C. 2005. Contradusta walkeri Sowerby I, 1832. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/walkeri.htm (see site for additional synonyms)

 

Generic Combinations

• Contradusta walkeri (Sowerby, 1832). —
  Meyer, C. 2005. Contradusta walkeri Sowerby I, 1832. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/walkeri.htm

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean and SE Asia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Burgess, C.M. 1985. Cowries of the World. Cape Town : Seacomber Publications 289 pp. [115] (as Cypraea walkeri)

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [128]

Meyer, C. 2005. Contradusta walkeri Sowerby I, 1832. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/walkeri.htm

Meyer, C.P. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 79: 401-459 [458]

Meyer, C.P. 2004. Toward comprehensiveness: increased molecular sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic implications. Malacologia 46(1): 127-156 (included)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [182, pl. 32, figs 14 a,b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	05-Mar-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		05-Mar-2012	MOVED
		23-Nov-2011	MODIFIED