Species Eucithara alacris Hedley, 1922

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eucithara alacris Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [262, pl. 46, figs 54, 55] [replacement name; for Cythara maculata Brazier, 1876 (not Mangelia maculata Reeve)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.30006 dry, Torres Strait, off Murray Island, Queensland, Australia [9°54'32.4'S,144°2'38.4'E].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cythara maculata non Reeve, 1846 [misidentification. Not Mangelia maculata Reeve, 1846. Is Eucithara alacris Hedley, 1922]. —
  Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162 [160]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

General References

Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162 [160]

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [262, pl. 46, figs 54, 55]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [41]

History of changes