Species Dentimitrella tenuis (Gaskoin, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columbella tenuis Gaskoin, J.S. 1851. Descriptions of twenty species of Columbella and one species of Cypraea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19: 2-14 [2].
• Columbella pulla Gaskoin, J.S. 1851. Descriptions of twenty species of Columbella and one species of Cypraea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19: 2-14 [6].
• Columbella saccharata Reeve, L.A. 1859. Monograph of the genus Columbella. pl. 1, 24-37 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 11. [pl. 29, fig. 187].
• Columbella nux Reeve, L.A. 1859. Monograph of the genus Columbella. pl. 1, 24-37 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 11. [Columbellidae, pl. 29, fig. 187].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beechey, D.L. 2007. Mitrella tenuis (Gaskoin, 1852). Seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Columbellidae/Pages/Mitrella_tenuis.htm

Generic Combinations

• Mitrella tenuis (Gaskoin, 1851). —
  Beechey, D.L. 2007. Mitrella tenuis (Gaskoin, 1852). Seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Columbellidae/Pages/Mitrella_tenuis.htm
• Columbella (Mitrella) tenuis (Gaskoin, 1851). —
  Tryon, G.W. 1883. Marginellidae, Olividae, Columbellidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 5. [127]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Beechey, D.L. 2007. Mitrella tenuis (Gaskoin, 1852). Seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Columbellidae/Pages/Mitrella_tenuis.htm

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Australian Recent and Tertiary Species of the Molluscan Family Pyrenidae. Adelaide : Privately published. [1] (As Zemitrella pulla)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [70, sp. 1438] (As Dentimitrella pulla )

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [102] (As Dentimitrella pulla )

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. [151, fig. 3] (Russet-brown Dove Shell)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [150, pl. 151] (Long Dove Shell)

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