Genus Distorsio Röding, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Distorsio Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [133] [senior objective synonym of Distortrix and Persona].

  Type species:

   Murex anus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Pilsbry, H.A. 1922. Revision of W.M. Gabb's Tertiary Mollusca of Santo Domingo. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 73: 305-435, pls 16-47 [357].
• Distortrix Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38] [122] [junior objective synonym of Distorsio, with the same type species].

  Type species:

   Murex anus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Dall, W.H. 1904. A historical and systematic review of the frog-shells and tritons. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 47: 114-144 [133].
• Persona Montfort, P.D. de 1810. Conchyliologie Systematique, et Classification Methodique des Coquilles. Paris : F. Schoell Tome 2 676 + 16 pp. [602] [junior objective synonym of Distorsio].

  Type species:

   Murex anus Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Distorta Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls. [plate 10].

  Type species:

   Murex anus Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Rhysema Clench, W.J. & Turner, R.D. 1957. The family Cymatiidae in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia: Monographs of the marine mollusks of the Western Atlantic 3(36): 189-244 [236].

  Type species:

   Triton clathratum Lamarck, 1816 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumtropical

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [182]

Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120 [83]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [238]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	10-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED