Species Drupella margariticola (Broderip, 1833)
Shouldered Castor Bean, Shouldered Drupa, The Pearl-Shell-Inhabiting Murex
Compiler and date details
June 2017 - Burghardt, I.
- Murex undatus Dillwyn, L.W. 1817. A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London : John and Arthur Arch 2 volumes 1092 + 29 pp. [732] [junior homonym of Murex undatus Gmelin, 1791].
Type data:
Status unknown, Coast of Traquebar, India. - Purpura lineolata Blainville, H.M.D. de 1832. Dispostion méthodique des espèces récentes et fossiles des genres Pourpre, Ricinule. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 1: 189-263 [206, sp. 12].
Type data:
Syntype(s) Payta and coast of Peru. - Purpura squamosa Deshayes, G.P. 1832. Zoologie. Mollusques. pp. 401-416 in Bélanger, M.C. (ed.). Voyage aux Indes-Orientales, par le nord de l'Europe, les provinces du Caucase, la Géorgie, l'Armenie et la Perse, suivide details topographiques, statistique et autre sur le Pégon, les Isles de Java, de Maurice et de Bourbon, sur le Cap-de-bonne-Espérance et Sainte Hélène. Paris : Arthur Bertrand Vol. 2. [427, pl. 2, figs 6-8] [junior homonym of Purpura squamosa Lamarck, 1816].
Type data:
Status unknown, west coast of India. - Murex margariticola Broderip, W.J. 1833. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming [part]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 173-179 [177].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1981146, Lord Hood's I, Pacific Ocean (=Marutea I, Gambier Is, French Polynesia). - Purpura violacea Lesson, R.P. 1842. Notes sur quelques coquilles marines rapportes de la merd Sud. Additions au genre Purpura; voyez Revue. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne 5: 186-187 [186].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHN, Gambier and Marquises Ils. - Purpura squamulosa Deshayes, G.P. & Milne Edwards, H. 1844. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 10. [104].
Type data:
Status unknown, west coast of India. - Thais crassulnata Hedley, C. 1914. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 695-755, pls 77-85 [Date published 26 Feb.] [749, pl. 85, fig. 90].
Type data:
Lectotype AM C.15818 dry, north west beach, mid high tide, Sweers Island, Wellesley Group, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia [17°4'58.8'S, 139°37'58.8'W]. - Morula rhyssa Dall, W.H. 1923. Notes on Drupa and Morula. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 75: 303-306 [304].
Type data:
Status unknown, Australia. - Morula martensi Dall, W.H. 1923. Notes on Drupa and Morula. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 75: 303-306 [304] [junior homonym of martensi Schepman, 1892].
Type data:
Lectotype USNM 52472, Kingsmill Id.
Generic Combinations
- Cronia (Ergalatax) crassulnata (Hedley, 1914). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [22, pl. 5, fig. 16a-b] - Cronia (Ergalatax) margariticola (Broderip, 1833). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [22, pl. 5, fig. 23a-d] - Ergalatax margariticola (Broderip, 1833). —
Houart, R. 2008. Rehabilitation of Ergalatax martensi (Schepman, 1892) (Gastropoda: Muricidae), senior synonym of Ergalatax obscura Houart, 1996, and description of Ergalatax junionae, new name for Morula martensi Dall, 1923. Nautilus 122(2): 99-106 [101, 105, figs 8, 14, 41-45] - Drupella margariticola (Broderip, 1833).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Peru
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Norfolk Island Province (21), 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
Intertidal, marine, rocky shore, scavenger.
General References
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1982. The taxonomic status of Cronia fiscella (Gmelin, 1791) and C. margariticola (Broderip, 1833) (Gastropoda: Muricidae). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 19: 113-124 [117, figs 19-20] (as Cronia margariticola crassulnata)
Claremont, M., Reid, D.G. & Williams, S.T. 2011. Evolution of corallivory in the gastropod genus Drupella. Coral Reefs 30: 977-990
Houart, R. 1995. The Ergalataxinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae) from the New Caledonia region with some comments on the subfamily and the description of thirteen new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 4 16: 245-297 [252, figs 6, 62]
Houart, R. 2008. Rehabilitation of Ergalatax martensi (Schepman, 1892) (Gastropoda: Muricidae), senior synonym of Ergalatax obscura Houart, 1996, and description of Ergalatax junionae, new name for Morula martensi Dall, 1923. Nautilus 122(2): 99-106 [101, 105, figs 8, 14, 41-45]
Marshall, B. & Bouchet, P. 2014. Drupella margariticola (Broderip, 1833). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576817 (Accessed on 2017-06-14)
Middelfart, P. 1997. An illustrated checklist of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 17(2): 349-388 [360, pl. 3, fig. 1]
Tan, K.S. 1995. Taxonomy of Thais and Morula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in Singapore and Vicinity. 546 pp. [147-160, figs 40c-d, 45, 46, 47a-d, 48-51]
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [22] (as Cronia (Ergalatax) crassulnata)
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [22, pl. 5, figs 23a-d]
Common Name References
Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [148] (Shouldered Castor Bean)
Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [79, pl. 236] (Shouldered Drupa)
Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Murex. pls 1-34 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [sp. 178] (The Pearl-Shell-Inhabiting Murex)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-Jun-2021 | MURICIDAE | 08-Mar-2018 | MODIFIED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
| 29-Sep-2011 | MODIFIED |