Species Cystiscus opima (Laseron, 1957)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Microginella opima Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [292, fig. 40].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.48715 dry, Torres Strait, off Murray Island, Queensland, Australia [9°54'32.4"S,144°2'38.4"E].

Generic Combinations

• Cystiscus opima (Laseron, 1957). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

General References

Coovert, G.A. 1999. Revision of the nomenclature of the Kaicher Marginella card packs (Cystiscidae, Marginellidae). Marginella Marginalia 10(3-6): 1-39 [26]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-011]

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

History of changes