Genus Epitonium Röding, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Foliaceiscala De Boury, E.A. 1912. Description de Scalidae nouveaux ou peu connus. Journal de Conchyliologie 60(2): 87-107 [93].

  Type species:

   Sclararia dubia Sowerby by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Clench, W.J. & Turner, R.D. 1952. The genera Epitonium (Part 2), Depressiscala, Cylindriscala, Nystiella and Solutiscala in the western Atlantic. Johnsonia: Monographs of the marine mollusks of the Western Atlantic 2(31): 289-356

DuShane, H. 1990. Hawaiian Epitoniidae. Hawaiian Shell News 38(Supplement 1): 1-17

Nakayama, T. 2003. A review of northwest Pacific Epitoniids (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Monographs of marine mollusca No. 6. Leiden, The Netherlands : Backhuys Publishers pp. 1-143. [39]

Nützel, A. 1997. Über die Stammesgeschichte der Ptenoglossa (Gastropoda). Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E 26: 1-229 [131]

Vaught, K.C. 1989. A Classification of the Living Mollusca. Melbourne, Florida : American Malacologists Inc. xii, 195 pp. [39]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp.

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [275-276]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	26-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	23-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED