Species Epitonium godfreyi (Cotton, 1939)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Laeviscala godfreyi Cotton, B.C. 1939. Reports of the Expedition of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Mollusca. Part 2: General. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 51(1): 159-176 [172, pl. 7, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.13305, Reevesby Island, SA.

Generic Combinations

• Epitonium (Lamelliscala) godfreyi (Cotton, 1939). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [132]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Clathrus aculeatus auct. (Sowerby, 1844) [misidentification; not Sowerby, 1844]. —
  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1931. South Australian Shell Part 2. South Australian Naturalist 13(1): 5-23 [6]
• Epitonium aculeatum auct. (Sowerby, 1844) [misidentification; not Sowerby, 1844]. —
  Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 [193]
• Scala (Clathrus) aculeata auct. (Sowerby, 1844) [misidentification; not Sowerby, 1844]. —
  Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1901. The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893-1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(ii): 327-460 pls xxi-xxiv [355]
• Scala aculeata auct. (Sowerby, 1844) [misidentification; not Sowerby, 1844]. —
  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 [143]
• Scalaria aculeata auct. Sowerby, 1844 [misidentification- not Sowerby, 1844]. —
  Brazier, J. 1877. Shells collected during the Chevert Expedition, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 1(3): 249-261 [251]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal.

General References

Australian Museum 2011. Mollusca: loose leaf system. (misidentifications are listed in Epitoniidae (3))

Beechey, D. 2008. Epitonium minorum (Iredale, 1936). The seashells of New South Wales. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Epitoniidae/Pages/Epitonium_minorum.htm (Accessed 26 June 2012)

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [132, fig. 413]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [277, pl. 44, fig. 16]

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