Species Discotectonica acutissima (G.B. Sowerby III, 1914)

• Solarium acutissimum Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1914. Descriptions of fifteen new Japanese marine Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 14: 33-39 [36, pl. 2, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1915.1.6.100, Kii, Japan.
• Russetia dilaniatus Garrard, T.A. 1961. Mollusca collected by M. V. "Challenger" off the east coast of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 3–38 [23, pl. 1, figs 11a-b].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.63345 dry, east of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia [32°55'1.2'S, 152°40'1.2'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bieler, R. 1993. Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 1-377

 

Generic Combinations

• Architectonica acutissima (G.B. Sowerby III, 1914). —
  Kuroda, T. 1929. The molluscan fauna of Prov. Kii. Venus 1(4) [126]
• Discotectonica acutissima (G.B. Sowerby III, 1914). —
  Kuroda, T. & Habe, T. 1952. Check list and bibliography of the Recent Mollusca of Japan. Tokyo : Leo W. Stach 210 pp. [53]
• Acutitectonica acutissima (G.B. Sowerby III, 1914). —
  Habe, T. (ed.) 1961. Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 xii + 183 + 42 pp., 66 pl. [30, Appendix 10, pl. 13, fig. 21]
• Architectonica (Discotectonica) acutissima (G.B. Sowerby III, 1914). —
  Garrard, T.A. 1977 [1978]. A revision of Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 31(13): 506-584 [published 31 October 1978, cover date 30 September 1977] [509, fig. 6; 517, pl. 1, figs 16-18; also]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Japan, Philippines; Bieler, 1993: distribution map fig. 107, p. 133. 'Subtropical and tropical western Pacific. North Australian record in need of verification'.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand.

 

General References

Bieler, R. 1993. Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 1-377 [131]

Garrard, T.A. 1977 [1978]. A revision of Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 31(13): 506-584 [published 31 October 1978, cover date 30 September 1977] [517]

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [26]

 

History of changes

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