Species Latirus polygonus (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex polygonus Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3555].
• Fusus angulatus Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [118, sp. 1527].
• Murex lignarius 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. 1, fig. 2].
• Turbinella barclayi 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. 4].

 

Generic Combinations

• Latirus polygonus (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [71, pl. 11, figs 26a-c]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Family Fasciolariidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 11: 4 pp. [1]

Demond, J. 1957. Micronesian reef associated gastropods. Pacific Science 11(3): 275–341, fig. 2, pl. 1 [320-1]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [32]

Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [136]

Schepman, M.M. 1911. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 4: Rhachiglossa. pp. 247-364, pls 18-24 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Monograph 49.

Smith, E.A. 1891. On a collection of marine shells from Aden, with some remarks upon the relationship of the Molluscan fauna of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891(3): 390–436 [411]

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. [163]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [71, pl. 11, figs 26a-c]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [135, pl. 410] (Many Angled Latirus)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	31-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED