Species Cymatiella sexcostata (Tate, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Triton sexcostata Tate, R. 1888. The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 91-176 [127, pl. 6, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Blanche Point, Aldinga Bay, SA.
• Sassia gaimardi Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [176, pl. 40, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Lincoln, SA.
• Cymatiella peroniana Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [176, pl. 40, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.57718 dry, off Montague Island, New South Wales, Australia [36°10'1.2"S, 150°13'58.8"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Sassia (Cymatiella) sexcostata (Tate, 1888). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [251, pl. 40, figs 15a-b]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

 

General References

Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp. [128, pl. 24, fig. 7]

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 [54]

Ludbrook, N.H. 1978. Quaternary molluscs of the western part of the Eucla Basin. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Western Australia 125: 1–286 [138, pl. 15, figs 9, 10]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [251, pl. 40, figs 15a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	25-Jul-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		18-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED