Species Eucithara guentheri (Sowerby, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cythara guentheri Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1893. Descriptions of fifteen new species of shells of the family Pleurotomidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 487–492 [491, pl. 38, figs 27, 28].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 92.1.29.28-9, Holothuria Banks, NW Australia, 38 fathoms.

Generic Combinations

• Eucithara guentheri (Sowerby, 1893). —
  Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [267, pl. 46, fig. 61]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Mangelia ponderosa non Reeve, 1846 [misidentification. Not Mangelia ponderosa Reeve, 1846. Is Cythara guenthara Sowerby, 1846]. —
  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 [159]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

General References

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [267, pl. 46, fig. 61]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [443]

History of changes