Species Ericusa sericata Thornley, 1951

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ericusa sericata Thornley, G. 1951. A New Species of Volute Shell (Volutidae) from Deep Water off Broughton Island, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1949-1950: 53-54, fig. 6 [53, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.62109 dry, on hard bottom, sticky grey sand, 5 mls east of Broughton Island, New South Wales, Australia [32°37'1.2'S,152°24'0'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Notopeplum sericatum (Thornley, 1951). —
  Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [152, pl. 54, figs 4-5] (New combination)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Wide Bay, Queensland to Wollongong, New South Wales.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, mud-silt, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

65-180 m , trawled along the outer part of the continental shelf; hard mud.

 

General References

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [152,pl. 54, figs 4-5] (as Notopeplum sericatum)

Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375. [52,pl. 20C-D]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [123,pl. 23, figs 4a-b,pl. 24A, fig. 5]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [290] (Silky Volute)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	02-Feb-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		02-Feb-2012	MOVED
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED