Species Exomilopsis spica (Hedley, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mangilia spica Hedley, C. 1907. The results of deep sea investigation in the Tasman Sea. Mollusca from eighty fathoms off Narrabeen. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 283–304 [297, pl. 55, fig. 20].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.25770, NSW, 22mls E of Narrabeen, N of Sydney , (33° 42' S , 151° 43' E), [33° 42' S , 151° 43' E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Exomilus spica (Hedley, 1907). —
  Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [335]
• Exomilopsis spica (Hedley, 1907). —
  Powell, A.W.B. 1964. New Zealand molluscan systematics with descriptions of new species. Part 4. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 6(1): 11-20, pl. 13 [16]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Beechey, D.L. 2007. Exomilopsis spica (Hedley, 1907). Seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Columbellidae/Pages/Exomilopsis_spica.htm

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [335]

Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12. [48, fig. 255]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [78]

Verco, J.C. 1907. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part VI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31: 213-230 [Date published 9 Dec] [215]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [100]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	13-Sep-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED