Species Epitonium alatum (Sowerby, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scalaria alata Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1844. Monograph of the genus Scalaria. 83-108, pl. 32-35 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [p.84, pl. 32, fig 10, 11].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1981039, Catanuan, Luzon, Philippines.
• Epitonium arestum Tinker, S. 1952. Pacific Sea Shells. A handbook of common marine mollusks of Hawaii and the south seas. Tokyo : Tuttle 240 pp. [38].

 

Generic Combinations

• Lamelliscala alata (Sowerby, 1844). —
  Jousseaume, F. 1912. Faune malacologique de la Mer Rouge. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 24((3-4)): 180-246, pls 5-7 [194]
• Epitonium (Epitonium) alatum (Sowerby, 1844). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [90, fig. 272]
• Epitonium alatum (Sowerby, 1844). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Paciofic: Hawaii, Japan, Philippines, Australia, Cocos–Keeling Islands. Australian distribution from Wilson (1993) and AMS collection.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal to 150 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 [34]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [153]

Rosenberg, G. 2011. Epitonium alata (Sowerby II, 1844). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207963 (Accessed on 2015-09-04)

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [90, fig. 270]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [276, pl. 44, fig. 32]

 

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
	EPITONIOIDEA	28-Jun-2012	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall