Species Cystiscus angasi (Crosse, 1870)

Museums

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• Marginella angasi Crosse, H. 1870. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie 18: 301-304 [304] [Brazier MS].
• Volvaria lubrica Petterd, W. 1884. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Journal of Conchology 4: 135-145 [143].
• Marginella minima Petterd, W. 1884. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Journal of Conchology 4: 135-145 [144].
• Marginella shorehami Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1899. On some new species of Victorian mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 11(2): 179-184, pl. 20 [179, pl. 20, fig. 2].
• Marginella simsoni Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [92].
• Marginella ringens May, W.L. 1920. New species of Tasmanian Mollusca, with critical remarks on several described species, and additions to the list. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1919: 55-69 pls 14-17 [Date published 6 Mar 1920] [58, pl. 14, fig. 6].
• Marginella erma Cotton, B.C. 1944. Australian margin shells: Marginellidae. South Australian Naturalist 22(4): 9-16 [15].
• Marginella amphora Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [46, pl. 6, fig. 43].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.103371 dry, off Point Halliday, New South Wales, Australia [32°4'30'S,152°33'0'E].
• Marginella angasi melania Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [46, pl. 6, fig. 42] [as Marginella angasi var. melania Laseron, 1948].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.103373 dry, under rocks, Sydney, North Harbour, Fairlight, New South Wales, Australia [33°48'10.8'S,151°16'22.8'E].

Generic Combinations

• Cystiscus angasi (Crosse, 1870). —
  Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-002]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, intertidal, marine, under rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

To 750 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Cystiscus angasi (Crosse, 1870). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Cystiscus_angasi.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [207]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [390]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [63,67]

Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [35]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-002, 009]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [73, pl. 212] (Angas's Margin Shell)

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