Species Cyllene royana (Iredale, 1924)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Radulphus royanus Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [270, pl. 34, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.74642, Twofold Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 27-46 m.

Generic Combinations

• Cyllene royana (Iredale, 1924). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [227, pl. 51, figs 9, 10; fig. 172]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

27-50 m.

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Cyllene lactea A. Adams & Angas, 1864. The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Nassariidae/Pages/Cyllene_lactea.htm ("It is likely that it is a strongly sculptured form of Cyllene lactea" date accessed 14/8/2012)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1981. Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18: 137-192 [185, figs 85-86, 90]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [227, pl. 51, figs 9-10, fig. 172]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [77] ("It is likely that this is merely a variant of C.lactea)

History of changes