Species Eucithara delacouriana (Crosse, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cithara delacouriana Crosse, H. 1869. Diagnoses Molluscorum Novae Caledoniae. Journal de Conchyliologie 17: 177-180 [178].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Noumea, New Caledonia.
• Cithara matakuana Smith, E.A. 1884. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 14: 317–329 [328].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1856.10.27.52, Mataku, Fiji Islands.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kilburn, R.N. 1992. Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6 Mangeliinae, Section 1. Annals of the Natal Museum 33(2): 461-575 [543].

 

Generic Combinations

• Eucithara matakuana (Smith, 1884). —
  Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23 [110]
• Mangilia (Cythara) matakuana (Smith, 1884). —
  Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1897. Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs Hadfield, with list of species. Part 3. Journal of Conchology 8: 396–421
• Daphnella metakuana (Smith, 1884). —
  Paetel, F. 1888-1890. Catalog der Conchylien-Sammlung, mit Hinzufügung der bis jetzt publicirtne recenten Arten, sowie der ermittelten Synonyma. Berlin : Paetel.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Eucithara stromboides non Reeve, 1846 [misidentification. Not Eucithara stromboides Reeve, 1846. Is Eucithara delacouriana (Crosse, 1869)]. —
  Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [272 (except for references)]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Philippines. QLD records (3 lots) from Australian Museum reference collection

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Bouchet, P., Kantor, Y.I., Sysoev, A. & Puillandre, N. 2011. A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies 77(3): 273–308 [281]

Crosse, J.C.H. 1872. Description d'espèces inedites provenant de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 20: 218-222 [Date published 24 Jul 1872] [66, pl. 2, fig. 4]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [605]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CONOIDEA	05-Mar-2012	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)