Species Domiporta filaris (Linnaeus, 1771)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta filaris Linnaeus, C. 1771. Mantissa Plantarum. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Holmiae Pts 1 & 2 588 pp. [548].

  Type data:

   Lectotype LS, Tonga Islands.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164.
• Voluta filosa Born, I. von 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, pl. 1, Testacea. - Verzeichniss etc. Illust. Vindobonae. Vienna : J.P. Krauss xlii 458 pp. [212].
• Mitra nexilis Lamarck, J.P.B.A de M. 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de mollusques testacés, Mitre (Mitra). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 17: 54-80, 195-222 [202].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Tonga Islands.
• Mitra filosa bernardiana Philippi, R.A. 1850. Bemerkungen über einige Arten von Mitra. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 7: 22-29 [26].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Marquesas Islands.
• Mitra filosa Philippi, R.A. 1850. Bemerkungen über einige Arten von Mitra. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 7: 22-29 [26].

 

Generic Combinations

• Domiporta filaris (Linnaeus, 1771). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [156]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Coral Sea region 18 (AMS C.374625)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, coral sand, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Among weed

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164 [89, pl. 82]

Taylor, J.D. 1989. The diet of coral-reef Mitridae (Gastropoda) from Guam; with a review of other species of the family. Journal of Natural History 23(1): 261-278 (included in study)

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [156, pl. 34, figs 16a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	31-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED