Species Epitonium umbilicatum (Pease, 1869)

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• Scalaria umbilicata Pease, W.H. 1869. Descriptions of new species of Marine Gastropodae inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 5(2): 64-79, pl. 8 [76].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 187393, Oahu, Hawaii.

  Type locality references:

  DuShane, H. 1990. Hawaiian Epitoniidae. Hawaiian Shell News 38(Supplement 1): 1-17 [11, fig. 9].
• Scalaria confusa Smith, E.A. 1890. Report on the marine molluscan fauna of the island of St Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 58: 247-317 [273] [subjective synonym].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 1889.10.1.542–6; 1889.10.1.2471–3; 1886.2.22.20–22;1981211; 1981212 (Catanuan, Isle of Luzon, Philippines, Sandwich Islands, N. W. Australia, St. Helena.), N. W. Australia.

  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 [55].
• Epitonium oahuense Pilsbry, H.A. 1921. Marine mollusks of Hawaii - XIV, XV. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 72: 360–382 [subjective synonym].

 

Generic Combinations

• Scala confusa (Smith, 1890). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [1]
• Depressiscala umbilicata (Pease, 1869). —
  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 [155-156]
• Epitonium (Depressiscala) umbilicatum (Pease, 1869). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [90]
• Epitonium (Epitonium) umbilicatum (Pease, 1869).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Hawaii, Western Australia, Arabian Sea, Natal, South Africa, West Africa.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to 213 m

 

General References

Brazier, J. 1877. Shells collected during the Chevert Expedition, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 1(3): 249-261 [250]

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 [23, 55, 155-156]

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [1]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [157]

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]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [90, fig. 271]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	26-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	28-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED