Species Engina alveolata (Kiener, 1836)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Purpura alveolata Kiener, L.C. 1836. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Ballière Vol. 8 1-151, pls 1-46. [42, pl. 9, fig. 23].
• Ricinula histrio Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Ricinula. pls 1-6 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [pl. 5, fig. 36].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1968467, Island of Ticao, Philippines.
• Engina fusiformis Pease, W.H. 1865. Descriptions of new genera and species of marine shells from the Islands of the Central Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 512-517 [513].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1964309, Central Pacific.
• Engina reevei Tryon, G.W. 1883. Marginellidae, Olividae, Columbellidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 5. [191, pl. 62, fig. 29].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fraussen, K. & Chino, M. 2011. Notes about Engina J.E. Gray, 1839 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) with description of three new species from the west Pacific. Visaya 3(3): 63-81 [64]

Generic Combinations

• Engina alveolata (Kiener, 1836).
• Engina histrio (Reeve, 1846).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Engina alveolata (Kiener, 1836) [misidentification; is Engina lauta]. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [92, pl. 10, figs 1a-b]
• Engina alveolata (Kiener, 1836) [misidentification; is Engina lauta]. —
  Poppe, G.T. 2008. Philippine Marine Mollusks. Volume 1. Gastropoda Part 1. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks Vol. 3 pp.1-758, pls 1-312. [50, pl. 320, fig. 1]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific; Australia is given by Fraussen & Chino (2011), but an exact locality is not given

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Fraussen, K. & Chino, M. 2011. Notes about Engina J.E. Gray, 1839 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) with description of three new species from the west Pacific. Visaya 3(3): 63-81 [64-65, text figs]

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