Species Epitonium liliputanum (A. Adams, 1861)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scala liliputana Adams, A. 1861. On the Scalidae or "Wentletraps" of the Sea of Japan; with descriptions of some new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 8: 479-484 [481].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sea of Japan.

  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 [96].

Generic Combinations

• Epitonium (Epitonium) liliputanum (A. Adams, 1861). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [92]

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Extra Distribution Information

Hawaii, Japan, Australia (DuShane 1990: 4); South Africa (Epitonium sallykaicherae Kilburn, 1985, from South Africa may be a junior subjective synonym of this species)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

General References

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. [45, pl. 11, figs 1-3]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [92, fig. 276]

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