Species Daphnella (Daphnella) botanica Hedley, 1918

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pleurotoma fragilis Reeve, L.A. 1846. Descriptions of new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1845: 108-119 [111] [junior homonym; not Pleurotoma fragilis Deshayes, 1834].
• Daphnella botanica Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M.83].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.17950 dry, under stones, Sydney Harbour, Nielson Park, Bottle and Glass Rocks, New South Wales, Australia [33°50'56.4'S,151°16'8.4'E].
• Paradaphne bucklandi Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12. [44, pl. 11, figs 224, 225].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.103519 dry, Twofold Bay, New South Wales, Australia [37°4'58.8'S,149°54'0'E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Boulders, continental shelf, intertidal, marine, rocky shore, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 150 m

 

General 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. [193, fig. 11]

Beechey, D. 2004. Daphnella botanica Hedley, 1918. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Turridae/Pages/Daphnella_botanica.htm (date accessed 30/11/2011)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [100, pl. 304]

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [326, pl. 53, figs 157-159]

Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12. [44, pl. 11, figs 222, 223]

Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1–6 [5]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [183]

 

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. [193] (Botanic Turrid)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [100, pl. 304] (Botany Bay Turrid)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	14-Nov-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		14-Nov-2011	MOVED
		31-Oct-2011	MODIFIED