Species Epitonium platypleurum (Verco, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scala platypleura 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 [145, pl. 4, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.13460, Backstairs Passage, South Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Folaceiscala platypleura (Verco, 1906). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [375]
• Epitonium platypleura (Verco, 1906). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [278]
• Epitonium (Nitidiscala) platypleurum (Verco, 1906). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [134]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [4]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [134]

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

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