Species Epitonium parspeciosum (Iredale, 1929)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scala parspeciosa Iredale, T. 1929. Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 337-352, pls 37-38 [345, pl. 38, fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA C60640, Sydney Harbour, NSW.

  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 [118].

Generic Combinations

• Lamelliscala parspeciosa (Iredale, 1929). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [51]
• Epitonium (Epitonium) parspeciosum (Iredale, 1929). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [278, pl. 44, fig. 33]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Beechey, D. 2008. Epitonium parspeciosum (Iredale, 1929). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Epitoniidae/Pages/Epitonium_parspeciosum.htm (date accessed 7/3/2012)

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 [118]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [51]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [130]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [278, pl. 44, fig. 33]

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