Species Epitonium imperiale (Sowerby, 1844)
Imperial Ladder Shell, Imperial Wentletrap
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific. Australian distribution derived from Wilson (1993) and Australian Museum collection. Wilson gives the range as continuous from south-western WA northwards to Queensland, but AMS holds specimens only from south-western WA and Queensland, with none between.
IMCRA
Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, marine, shallow subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Is associated with anemones
General References
Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [1]
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. [71, pl. 18, figs 10-12]
Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [134, fig. 417]
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [277, pl. 44, fig. 7]
Common Name References
Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [104] (Imperial Ladder Shell)
Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [132, pl. 133] (Imperial Wentletrap)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-Jun-2021 | EPITONIOIDEA | 01-Jan-2016 | MODIFIED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall |
| 13-Feb-2012 | MODIFIED |