Species Cymbiola pulchra (Sowerby, 1825)

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Generic Combinations

• Cymbiola pulchra (Sowerby, 1825).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

St Crispin's Reef, Queensland to Ulladulla, New South Wales (POPPE1992A); Keppel Bay to Cape Morton, Queensland (WILSON1993B).

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

To 54 m.

 

General References

Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 1998. The "pulchra complex": revision of Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) from East Australian Coast. Rome : Evolver 80 pp. [3]

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [170,pl. 76, figs 1-2, 5-6,pl. 79, figs 1-3]

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. [97, pls 39H-J, 41E-H] (as Cymbiolacca pulchra)

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [121,pl. 18, fig. 5a-f]

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. [126,pl. 82,pl. 83, figs 4, 4a, 4b] (as Cymbiolacca pulchra)

 

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. [167] (Beautiful 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