Species Fusinus (Propefusus) pyrulatus (Reeve, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fusus pyrulatus Reeve, L.A. 1848. Monograph of the genus Fusus. pls 15-21 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 4. [pl. 13, fig. 50].
• Pyrula undulata Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls. [pl. 54, fig. 1] [junior homonym; Fusinus undulatus is a junior secondary homonym of Fusinus undulatus (Gmelin, 1791)].
• Turbinella ustulata Reeve, L.A. 1847. Monograph of the genus Turbinella. pls 1-13 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 4. [pl. 12, fig. 62].
• Fusus legrandi Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [137].
• Propefusus undulatus profundior Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1932. South Australian Shells, Part 3. South Australian Naturalist 13(2): 35-86, pls 1-4 [72, pl. 3, fig. 19].
• Propefusus compositis Mayblom, A.R. 1951. Deep-sea shells from New South Wales. The Australian Zoologist 11: 281-284, pl. 26 [283, pl. 26, fig. 4].

 

Generic Combinations

• Fusinus (Propefusus) undulatus (Perry, 1811). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [70, pl. 13, figs 12a-c]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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 slope, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

20-220 m

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [384]

Snyder, M.A. 2003. Catalogue of the marine gastropod family Fasciolariidae. Philadelphia : Scientific Publications Department in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special publication no. 21, pp. 1-431. [214]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [70, pl. 13, figs 12a-c]

 

Common Name 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. [160, fig. 4] (Pear-shaped Spindle, Waved Spindle)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [191, pl. 536] (Flame Spindle Shell)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	30-May-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		16-Jul-2014	MODIFIED