Genus Circulus Jeffreys, 1865

Museums

Regional Maps

• Circulus Jeffreys, J.G. 1865. British Conchology. London : John van Voorst Vol. 3 393 pp. pls I-VIII. [315] [as subgenus of Trochus].

  Type species:

   Delphinula duminyi Requien, 1848 by monotypy.
• Pygmaeorota Kuroda & Habe, 1954 [Venus, 18(1): 4; Not available (no description) from Kuroda & Habe, 1952, check list and bibliography of the Recent marine Mollusca of Japan: 80 [as Pygmaerota]].

  Type species:

   Cyclostrema duplicatum Lischke, 1872 by original designation.
• Circlotoma Laseron, C. 1958. Liotiidae and allied molluscs from the Dampierian Zoogeographical Province. Records of the Australian Museum 24(11): 165-182, figs 1-87.
• Soyorota Habe, 1961 [Venus, 21(4): 417 [Japanese], 425 [English]].

  Type species:

   Pygmaeorota soyoae Habe, 1961 by monotypy.
• Elachorbis Iredale, T. 1915. A commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 417-497 [Date published 12 July 1915] [443,444].

  Type species:

   Cyclostrema tatei Angas, 1878 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ponder, W.F. 1994. The anatomy and relationships of three species of vitrinelliform gastropods from Hong Kong (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). pp. 243-281 in Morton, B. (ed.). The Malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China III. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press. [257]
• Rubio, F. & Rolán, E. 2022. New species of Vitrinellidae (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea) from the Indo-Pacific. The genus Circulus Jeffreys, 1865. Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Santiago de Compostela. 422 pp. 422 pp. [16]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, eastern and western Atlantic, Mediterranean

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Fretter, V. 1956. The anatomy of the Prosobranch Circulus striatus (Philippi) and a review of its systematic position. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 126(3): 369-381 [369-381]

Fukuda, H., Asami, T., Yamashita, H., Sato, M., Hori, S. & Nakamura, Y. 2000. Marine molluscan and brachiopod fauna of Tanoura, Nagashima Isalnd, Kaminoseki-cho, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The Yuriyagai 7(2): 115-196 [131]

Ponder, W.F. 1994. The anatomy and relationships of three species of vitrinelliform gastropods from Hong Kong (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). pp. 243-281 in Morton, B. (ed.). The Malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China III. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press. [256]

Rubio, F. & Rolán, E. 2022. New species of Vitrinellidae (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea) from the Indo-Pacific. The genus Circulus Jeffreys, 1865. Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Santiago de Compostela. 422 pp. 422 pp.

Vaught, K.C. 1989. A Classification of the Living Mollusca. Melbourne, Florida : American Malacologists Inc. xii, 195 pp. [131]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	12-Oct-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	22-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	TRUNCATELLOIDEA	11-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		24-Jan-2012	MODIFIED