General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [751-752]

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [252]

Ponder, W.F. 1985. A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum suppl. 4: 1-221 [101]

History of changes

• Epigrus Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [355] [Rissoa ischna Tate, 1899, is a nom. nov. pro Rissoina cylindracea Tenison-Woods, 1878, by Tate treated as a junior secondary homonym of Rissoa cylindracea Krynicki, 1837].

  Type species:

   Rissoina cylindracea Tenison-Woods, 1878 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1944. Recent Australian species of the family Rissoidae (Mollusca). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 68(2): 286-314 [307]

Laseron, C. 1956. The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Damperian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(3): 384-484 [447]

Ponder, W.F. 1967. The classification of the Rissoidae and Orbitestellidae with descriptions of some new taxa. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology 9(17): 193-224, pls 1-13 [211]

Ponder, W.F. 1985. A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum suppl. 4: 1-221 [101]

History of changes

• Aclis columnaria May, W.L. 1910. New marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 48: 380-398 [Date published 1911] [397, pl. 15, fig. 27].

  Type data:

   Holotype 7 miles E of Cape Pillar, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Epigrus ? columnaria (May, 1911). —
  Ponder, W.F. 1974. A review of the Australian species assigned to Rissopsis Garrett with a description of a new species of Rissopsetia (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3(1): 25-35 [30] (Ponder states the original citation incorrectly as pl. 14, fig. 27; it is actually pl. 15, fig. 27)
• Eusetia columnaria (May, 1911). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1944. Recent Australian species of the family Rissoidae (Mollusca). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 68(2): 286-314 [307] (Cotton cites the original reference incorrectly as Proc Roy Soc Tas 18, pl. 15, fig. 27; it should be Vol 48, pl. 15, fig. 27, p. 397. The publication date is 1911.)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Epigrus columnarius (Hedley & May, 1908) [sic]. —
  Grove, S.J., Kershaw, R.C., Smith, B.J. & Turner, E. 2006. A Systematic List of the Marine Molluscs of Tasmania. Launceston, Tasmania : Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery 120 pp. [35, sp. 717] (note error in author citation, it should be May, 1911)

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes

• Rissoa cylindracea Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. On some new marine shells. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2(3): 262-266 [266].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.2469 dry, 5 mls east of Sydney Heads, New South Wales, Australia [33°49'58.8'S, 151°22'58.8'E].
• Eulima dissimilis Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [522, pl. 37, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype Port Jackson, N.S.W.
• Rissoa ischna Tate, R. 1899. Contribution to a revision of the Recent Rissoidae of Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 23(2): 230-244 [233] [unnecessary replacement name for Rissoa cylindraceus Tenison-Woods, 1878].
• Rissoa (Amphithalamus) simsoni Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [100, pl. 26, fig. 16].

  Type data:

   Holotype TM E.429/7770, derwent Estuary, Tasmania.
• Epigrus borda Cotton, B.C. 1944. Recent Australian species of the family Rissoidae (Mollusca). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 68(2): 286-314 [308, pl. 16, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Cape Borda, South Australia, 62 fathoms.

Generic Combinations

• Epigrus cylindracea (Tenison-Woods, 1878). —
  Ponder, W.F. 1984. A review of the genera of the Iravadiidae (Gastropoda : Rissoacea) with an assessment of the relationships of the family. Malacologia 25: 21-71 [101]
• Cingula (Pelecydium) cylindracea (Tenison-Woods, 1878). —
  Ludbrook, N.H. 1956. The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part III — Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda (Haliotidae to Tornidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 79: 1-36 pls 1-2 [30]
• Epigrus dissimilis (Watson, 1886). —
  Ponder, W.F. 1985. A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum suppl. 4: 1-221 [101]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1944. Recent Australian species of the family Rissoidae (Mollusca). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 68(2): 286-314 [304]

Laseron, C. 1956. The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Damperian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(3): 384-484 [448, fig. 166]

Ludbrook, N.H. 1956. The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part III — Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda (Haliotidae to Tornidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 79: 1-36 pls 1-2 [30]

Ponder, W.F. 1985. A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum suppl. 4: 1-221 [101]

History of changes

• Epigrus truncata Laseron, C. 1956. The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Damperian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(3): 384-484 [448, fig. 168].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.102463 dry, beach, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia [12°28'1.2'S, 130°49'58.8'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Laseron, C. 1956. The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Damperian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(3): 384-484 [448, fig. 168]

History of changes