Species Epitonium scalare (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turbo scalaris Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [764].

  Type data:

   Lectotype (the figure of Gualtieri (1742: pl. 10, fig. ZZ) (lectotype, designated [as “fig. 22”] by Clench & Turner 1951: 252)).
• Turbo scalaris var. rosea Spalowsky, J.J.N.A. 1795. Prodromus in Systema Historicum Testaceorum. Vorschmack einer vollständigen systematischen geschichte der schalthiergehäuse. Wien : Gedruckt bey Ignaz Alberti's Wittwe. pp. [14], IV, 88 pp., [1], XIII leaves of plates.
• Epitonium breve Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798].
• Epitonium lineatum Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798].
• Epitonium medium Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798].
• Epitonium principale Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798].
• Scalaria conica Lamarck, J.B. 1801. Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou, tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaus; présentant leurs caractères essentials et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précéde du Discours d'ouverture de l'an VIII de la République. Paris : Déterville viii 432 pp.
• Scalaria genuina Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38].
• Scalarus scalata Montfort, P.D. de 1810. Conchyliologie Systematique, et Classification Methodique des Coquilles. Paris : F. Schoell Tome 2 676 + 16 pp.
• Scalaria disjuncta Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells. London : Wm. Miller 4 + (61) pp., 61 pls. [subjective synonym].
• Scalaria pretiosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Paris : Agasse Part 23 pp. 1-16, pls 391-488. [subjective synonym].
• Scala pretiosa var. multivaricifera Smith, M. 1911. A new varietal form of Scala pretiosa Linn. The Nautilus 25(5): 56-57 [subjective synonym].
• Epitonium (Scalaria) pretiosa var. minor Grabau, A.W. & King, S.G. 1928. Shells of Peitaiho. Handbook No. 2. Peking : Peking Society of Natural History vi + 279 pp., pl. 3-11. [subjective synonym].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [39] (see for complete synonymy)

 

Generic Combinations

• Epitonium (Epitonium) scalare (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [94, fig. 288]
• Scala scalaria (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Jousseaume, F. 1912. Faune malacologique de la Mer Rouge. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 24((3-4)): 180-246, pls 5-7 [193]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific; Japan to Australia and west to Natal, South Africa, Red Sea (Nakayama 2003: 40)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

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 [136]

Cotton, B.C. 1964. Molluscs of Arnhem Land. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 4 (Zoology): 9–43 [26]

Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M65]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [10]

Jousseaume, F. 1912. Faune malacologique de la Mer Rouge. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 24((3-4)): 180-246, pls 5-7 [193]

Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1901. The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893-1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(ii): 327-460 pls xxi-xxiv [354]

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. [39-40, pl. 10, figs 11-13]

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1978. An illustrated checklist of marine shelled gastropods from Phuket Island, adjacent mainland and offshore islands, Western Peninsula, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 21: 1-22, 259 figs [19]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [94, fig. 288]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [278, pl. 44, figs 17a-b]

 

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. [103, pl. 17, fig. 10] (Precious Wentletrap)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	05-Jan-2016	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED