Genus Diastoma Deshayes, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diastoma Deshayes, G.P. 1850. Traité élémentaire de conchyliologie avec les applications de cette science à la geologie. Paris : Librairie Victor Masson Vol. 1 824 pp. [46] [explanation of plate 74, originally published without legend].

  Type species:

   Melania costellata Lamarck, 1804 by monotypy.
• Neodiastoma Cotton, B.C. 1932. Notes on Australian Mollusca, with descriptions of new genera and new species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4: 537-547 [541].

  Type species:

   Mesalia melanoides Reeve, 1849 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

General References

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [126]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	DIASTOMATIDAE	12-Jan-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		02-Nov-2011	MODIFIED