Species Epitonium lyra (Sowerby, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scalaria lyra 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. [89, pl. 33, fig. 38-39, pl. 34, figs. 81–82].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1979162/1–3, Masbate Island, Philippines.
• Scalaria vestalis Hinds, R.B. 1843. Descriptions of new species of Scalaria and Murex from the collection of Sir Edward Belcher C. B. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London XI: 124-129 [125].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, New Guinea, 7 fathoms, among mud.

 

Generic Combinations

• Epitonium (Limiscala) lyra (Sowerby, 1844). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [98, fig. 308]
• Epitonium lyrum (Sowerby, 1844). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [277, pl. 44, fig. 28]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, off Amani O–shima to Okinawa, Japan; Queensland, Australia, to Red Sea, Mozambique (Nakayama 2003: 74)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, mud.

 

General 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 [101]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [168]

Hinds, R.B. 1844. The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1836–42. London : Smith, Elder & Co. Vol. 2 v + 72 pp., pls 1–21. [48]

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. [74, pl. 18, fig. 13]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [98, fig. 308]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [277, pl. 44, fig. 28]

 

History of changes

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