Species Epitonium dubium (Sowerby, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scalaria dubia 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. [pl. 33, fig. 41].
• Scalaria striata Gray, J.E. 1847. Description of some new marine shells. Appendix 10. pp. 355-362 in Jukes, J.B. (ed). Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N. in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842-1846: together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2. [358, pl. 2, fig. 6].
• Scalaria grayi Nyst, H. 1871. Tableau synoptique et synonymique des espèces vivants et fossiles du genre Scalaria. Annales de la Société Malacologique de Belgique 6: 77-147 [112].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [75] (see for complete synonymy)

 

Generic Combinations

• Epitonium (Foliaceiscala) dubia (Sowerby, 1844). —
  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. [75, pl. 18, figs 24-25]
• Epitonium dubium (Sowerby, 1844). —
  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 [64-65]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

In 90 m

 

General References

Blake, A.F. & Oliver, P.G. 1982. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 12. Epitoniacea. Cardiff : National Museum of Wales. [9]

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. [75, pl. 18, figs 24-25]

Sartori, A.F. 2014. Epitonium dubium (G. B. Sowerby II, 1844). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=523836 (Accessed on 2015-09-08)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	07-Jul-2016	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED