Species Eucithara vittata (Hinds, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mangelia vittata Hinds, R.B. 1843. Descriptions of new shells from the collection of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., C.B. etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1843: 36-46 [45].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1879.2.26.92, Straits of Macassar, from 10 fathoms, coarse sand.
• Mangelia abyssicola Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Mangelia. pls 1-8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [pl. 5, fig. 30].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, Island of Mindanao, Philippines.

  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 [556].
• Pleurotoma (Glyphostoma?) rubrocincta Smith, E.A. 1882. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 10: 296-306 [305].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ovalan, Fiji Islands, 12 fathoms.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [p. 556]

Generic Combinations

• Mangilia (Cythara) vittata (Reeve, 1846) [Sic. should be Mangelia]. —
  Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [58, pl. 2, fig. 62]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Mangilia vittata non Hinds, 1843 [misidentification. Is Pleurotoma (Glyphostoma?) exquisita E.A. Smith, 1882]. —
  Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Mangelia. pls 1-8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [pl. 7, sp. 53, pl. 8, sp. 65]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, marine, mud-silt, rock reef, sand, subtidal.

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [192, fig. 9] (As Eucithara abyssicola)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [154, pl. 55, fig. 3] (As Eucithara abyssicola)

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [261] (As Eucithara abyssicola)

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 [556]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [21]

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