Species Diffalaba opiniosa Iredale, 1936

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diffalaba opiniosa Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [290, pl. 21, fig. 16].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.61631 dry, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'S, 151°13'58.8"E].
• Diala lirata Laseron, C.F. 1950. Review of the Rissoidae of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 22: 257-287, figs 1-94 [285, fig. 90].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, Toronto, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Alaba opiniosa (Iredale, 1936). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [127]
  Beechey, D. 2009. Alaba opiniosa (Iredale, 1936). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Litiopidae/Pages/Alaba_opiniosa.htm

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, exposed coast, intertidal, marine, on algae, seagrass, sheltered coast, subtidal.

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2009. Alaba opiniosa (Iredale, 1936). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Litiopidae/Pages/Alaba_opiniosa.htm (date accessed 3/11/2011)

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 [43, no. 818] (as Diffalaba opiniosa Iredale, 1936)

Ponder, W.F. & Keyzer, R. de 1992. A revision of the genus Diala (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Dialidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1019-1075 [1074]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [127]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	LITIOPIDAE	30-Jan-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		02-Nov-2011	MODIFIED