Species Coriophora fusca (Dunker, 1860)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Triforis fusca Dunker, W. 1860. Neue Japanische Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blätter 6: 221-240 [237, pl. 2, fig. 22].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 101922a, Japan.
• Mastonia limosa Jousseaume, F. 1884. Monographie des Triforidae. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 1: 217-270 [263, pl. 4, fig. 16].
• Triphora nocturna Hedley, C. 1903. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27: 596-619 [Date published 9 April 1903] [613, pl. 32, figs 30, 31].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.13515 dry, Pearl Bay, The Spit, Middle Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°48'36"S, 151°14'42"E].
• Triphora hungerfordi Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1914. Descriptions of new mollusca from New Caledonia, Japan, Philippines, China and West Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 14: 475-480 [477, pl. 19, fig. 10].
• Mesophora bowenensis Laseron, C. 1958. The Family Triphoridae (Mollusca) from Northern Australia, also Triphoridae from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 9(4): 569-658, figs 1-255 [593, fig. 52-55].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.103055 dry, under rocks, Bowen, Queensland, Australia [20°1'1.2"S, 148°15'0"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Mesophora fusca (Dunker, 1860). —
  Marshall, B.A. 1983. A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 2: 119 pp., 3 figs, 30 pls [46-47, figs 4I, 19I-K, table 19]
• Coriophora fusca (Dunker, 1860). —
  Özdikmen, H. 2013. Substitute names for three preoccupied generic names in Gastropoda. Munis Entomology and Zoology 8(1): 252-256 [254]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Notosinister nocturnus auct. —
  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 [46]
• Cautor hungerfordi auct. —
  Kosuge, S. 1963. On the family Triphoridae (Gastropoda) from Amami Islands (4). Venus 3 22: 240-257 [250, pl. 17, fig. 32]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

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, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

Coarse sand.

 

General References

Chang, C-K & Wu, W-L 2005. The Taiwan Mollusks II - Triphoridae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda) from Lutao, Taitung. Taiwan : Research Center for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica pp. 1-116. [39, fig. 83] (as Mesophora limosa)

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [167]

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 [46]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [113]

Marshall, B.A. 1983. A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 2: 119 pp., 3 figs, 30 pls [46, figs 4I, 19I-K; table 19]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [268]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TRIPHOROIDEA	16-Dec-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		29-Feb-2012	MODIFIED