Species Epitonium bellicosum Hedley, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Epitonium bellicosum Hedley, C. 1907. The results of deepsea investigation in the Tasman Sea. II. The expedition of the "Woy Woy". 2. Mollusca from eight hundred fathoms, thirty-five miles east of Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 356-364 [360, pl. 67, fig. 18].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1907.9.10.20, 35 miles east of Sydney and 23 miles east of Sydney, NSW.

  Type locality 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 [44].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beechey, D. 2008. Epitonium bellicosum Hedley, 1907. The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Epitoniidae/Pages/Epitonium_bellicosum.htm (Accessed 25 June 2012)

 

Generic Combinations

• Epitonium (Mazescala) bellicosum (Hedley, 1907). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [279]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

110-1460 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2008. Epitonium bellicosum Hedley, 1907. The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Epitoniidae/Pages/Epitonium_bellicosum.htm (date accessed 7/3/2012)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [51]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [132]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [279]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	05-Jan-2016	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED