Species Fusiaphera macrospira (Adams & Reeve, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancellaria macrospira Adams, A. & Reeve, L. 1850. Mollusca. pp. 45-87 in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve Vol. 3. [41, pl. 10, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype Coast of Borneo, China Sea.
• Cancellaria pallida Smith, E.A. 1899. Notes on some marine shells from northwest Australia, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3: 311-314 [313, text-fig.].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1891.11.21.96, off Cassini Island, northwestern end of Bonaparte Archipelago, NWA.
• Fusiaphera dampierensis Garrard, T.A. 1975. A revision of Australian Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 30: 1-62 [17, pl. 2, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 550-71, 11-12 km N. of Delambre Island, Dampier Archipelago, NWA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bouchet, P. & Petit, R.E. 2008. New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae (Gastropoda). Nautilus 122(1): 1-18 [8-9] (see for complete synonymy)

 

Generic Combinations

• Fusiaphera macrospira (Adams & Reeve, 1850). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [175, pl. 37, fig. 14]
• Fusiaphera pallida (Smith, 1899). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [175, text fig.]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from east Africa to Fiji

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, muddy sand bottom, sandy mud bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

18-100 m

 

General References

Bouchet, P. & Petit, R.E. 2008. New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae (Gastropoda). Nautilus 122(1): 1-18 [8-10]

Garrard, T.A. 1975. A revision of Australian Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 30: 1-62 [16]

Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [199-200]

Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. 2005. Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) — 2nd edition. Zootaxa 1102: 1-161 [67]

Verhecken, A. 1986. The recent Cancellariidae of Indonesia (Neogastropoda, Cancellariacea). Gloria Maris 25(2): 29-66 [36]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [175]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CANCELLARIOIDEA	01-Apr-2019	MODIFIED
		23-Nov-2011	MODIFIED