Species Drupina grossularia (Röding, 1798)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Drupa grossularia 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] [55].

  Type data:

   Lectotype no locality given, designated as Carteret Harbour, New Ireland.
• Purpura digitata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. pp. 1-16 in Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Paris : Agasse Part 23 pp. 1-16, pls 391-488. [2, pl. 395, figs 7a-b].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG 1101/16/1, no locality given.
• Purpura monstruosa Lesson, R.P. 1842. Molluscorum species novae. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne 5: 102-288 [103].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MHNG, Gambier Islands.
• Purpura laurentiana Petit de la Saussaye, M.S. 1850. Description de coquilles nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 1(4): 402-406 [403, pl. 13, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Pacific Ocean.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Claremont, M., Vermeij, G.J., Williams, S.T., & Reid, D.G. 2013. Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91-102 [93, Table 1]

 

Generic Combinations

• Drupina grossularia (Röding, 1798). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [42, pl. 5, fig. 10]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, to Polynesia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Kenn Transition (16), Northeast Province (18), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine, rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

Windward reefs

 

General References

Demond, J. 1957. Micronesian reef associated gastropods. Pacific Science 11(3): 275–341, fig. 2, pl. 1 [310]

Emerson, W.K. & Cernohorsky, W.O. 1973. The genus Drupa in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(13): 1-40 [35, pl. 2, figs 23-24, pls 31-32]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [241-3]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [316]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [42, pl. 5, fig. 10]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [92, pl. 61, figs 5-5a]

 

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. [147] (Finger Drupa, Yellow-mouthed Castor Bean)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [146, pl. 441] (Yellow Mouthed Drupe)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	12-Oct-2011	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		11-Oct-2011	MODIFIED