Genus Echinophoria Sacco, 1890

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Regional Maps

• Echinophoria Sacco, F, 1890. Catalogo Paleontologico del Bacino Terziario del Peimonte. Bollettino della Società Geologico Italiana 9: 185-330 [195].

  Type species:

   Buccinum intermedium Brocchi, 1814 by subsequent designation (Dall, 1909, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper, 59: 62).
• Trachydolium Howe, 1926 [nomen nudum].

  Type species:

   Galeodea dalli Dickerson, 1917 by monotypy.
• Euspinacassis Finlay, H.J. 1926. New Shells from New Zealand Tertiary Beds: Part 2. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 56: 227–258 [230].

  Type species:

   Euspinacassis pollens Finlay, 1926 by original designation.
• Shichiheia Hatai, K. & Nisiyama, S. 1949. New Tertiary Mollusca from Japan. Journal of Paleontology 23(1): 87-94 [93].

  Type species:

   Shichiheia etchuensis Hatai & Nisiyama, 1949 by original designation.
• Bathygalea Woodring, W.P. & Olsson, A.A. 1957. Bathygalea, a genus of moderately deep-water and deep-water Miocene to Recent cassids. United States Geological Survey Professional paper 314-B. pp. 21-26 [22].

  Type species:

   Cassis coronadoi Crosse, 1867 by original designation.
• Miogalea Woodring, W.P. & Olsson, A.A. 1957. Bathygalea, a genus of moderately deep-water and deep-water Miocene to Recent cassids. United States Geological Survey Professional paper 314-B. pp. 21-26 [22].

  Type species:

   Cassis dalli Anderson, 1929 (Considered by Abbott (1968) as a secondary homonym of Galeodea dalli Dickerson, 1917, and renamed Enchinophoria andersoni Abbott, 1968) by original designation, see Abbott, R.T. 1968. The helmet shells of the world (Cassidae). Part 1. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(9): 7-201.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Pan-tropical

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Beu, A.G. 2008. Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galaeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda),. pp. 269-387 in Heros, V., Cowie, R.H. & Bouchet, P. Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 25: 1-805 [362]

Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120 [78]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [232]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	12-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED