Species Cyllene pulchella Adams & Reeve, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyllene pulchella Adams, A. & Reeve, L. 1850. Mollusca. pp. 45-87 in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve Vol. 3. [33, pl. 10, fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Borneo, Indonesia, on shore.
• Cyllene striata Adams, A. 1851. A monograph of Cyllene, a genus of Gasteropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 204-206 [205].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Albrokkas Is. (=Albrolhos Is, West Australia).
• Cyllene glabrata Adams, A. 1851. A monograph of Cyllene, a genus of Gasteropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 204-206 [206].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Pasiaco, Philippines, 16 m.
• Cyllene oblonga Schepman, M.M. 1911. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 4: Rhachiglossa. pp. 247-364, pls 18-24 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Monograph 49. [301, pl. 22, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMA, Bougainville Strait, Indonesia, 141 m.
• Cyllene (Cyllene) bantamensis Oostingh, C.H. 1939. Die Mollusken des Pliocaens von Sued-Bantam in Java. Publications of the Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië. Geological Magazine 6(12): 163-187, pls 14-16 [186, pl. 16, figs 293-296].

  Type data:

   Holotype Pliocene of Java, Indonesia.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Black, grey or muddy sand to 141 m.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [222, pl. 49, figs 1-8]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [76, text fig.]

 

History of changes

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