Species Euplica turturina (Lamarck, 1822)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columbella turturina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [296].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Réunion Island.
• Columbella palumbina Gould, A.A. 1845. Descriptions of species of land shells from the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 26-28 [27].
• Columbella sandwichensis Pease, W.H. 1861. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Pacific Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1861: 242–247 [244].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Drivas, J. & Jay, M. 1990. The Columbellidae of Réunion Island (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annals of the Natal Museum 31: 163-200 [168]

 

Generic Combinations

• Euplica turturina (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [267]
• Pyrene turturina (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific. Records from the AM collection that extend the range beyond the literature cited here: Coral Sea region 18 C.320898; Christmas island C.152433; Tasman Sea Elizabeth Reef region 14 C.236369; Cocos (Keeling) Island C.442641; Lord Howe island region 14 C.237230; NSW region 39 C.373878

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, marine, rock platforms.

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Australian Recent and Tertiary Species of the Molluscan Family Pyrenidae. Adelaide : Privately published. [4]

deMaintenon, M. 2008. Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 82: 341-374 [346]

Drivas, J. & Jay, M. 1990. The Columbellidae of Réunion Island (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annals of the Natal Museum 31: 163-200 [168]

Hervier, J. 1899. Le genre Columbella dan l'Archipel de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 47: 305-391 [308]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [107]

Yen, T.C. 1942. A review of the Chinese gastropods in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 24(5/6): 170-290 [226-7]

 

Common Name References

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [150, pl. 151] (Stout Dove)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	17-Sep-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED