Species Epitonium acanthopleura (Verco, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scala acanthopleura Verco, J.C. 1906. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part III. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 143-150 [145, pl. 4, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.13459, 35 miles southwest of Neptune Is., S. Australia, 104 fathoms (190 m).

Generic Combinations

• Foliaceiscala acanthopleura (Verco, 1906). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [375]
• Epitonium (Hirtoscala) acanthopleurum (Verco, 1906). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [130, fig. 406]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 190 m

General References

Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. 2015. Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa 3907(1): 1-188 [31]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [375]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [152]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [130, fig. 406]

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