Species Cymbiola perplicata (Hedley, 1902)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta perplicata Hedley, C. 1902. A New Australian Volute. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 309 [309, text fig. 23].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.9679 dry, off Cairns, Australia [17°25'1.2'S,151°40'1.2'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Cymbiola perplicata (Hedley, 1902).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Coral Sea; Diamond, Mellish and Lihou Reefs, Coral Sea (Wilson, 1993)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Kenn Transition (16), Northeast Province (18)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, marine.

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [1]

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [170,pl. 75, figs 4-5, 9]

Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375. [96,pl. 39D-E]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [121,pl. 18, fig. 2]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [255] (as Cymbiolacca perplicata) (Reticulated Volute)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	02-Feb-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED