Species Marmorofusus philippii (Jonas, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fusus philippii Philippi, R.A. 1846. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien, unter Mithulfe mehrer deutscher Conchyliologen, herausgegeben von. R.A. Philippi mit beitragen der Herren Anton … Dr vondem Busch, Dr Dunker, Dr Jones, Bergrath Koch, Dr Pfeiffer, Dr Troschell. Cassell : Theodor Fischer Vol. 2 232 pp. [Feb. 1846]. [191] (The section containing this page published in 1847 but name apparently appears in earlier pages published in 1846, see Lyons & Snyder 2019.).

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, In litore occidentali Novae Hollandiae [shores of Western Australia].
• Fusus tessellatus Sowerby, G.B. II 1880. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or Monographs of Genera of Shells. Monograph of the genus Fusus London : Sowerby Vol. 4 pp. 69-97, pls 418-422. [94, pl. 14, fig. 165].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (Fusus tessellatus figured specimen, originally in Thomas Lombe Taylor collection, has not been located at NHMUK), Locality unknown; ANSP 36461, habitat unknonwn.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lyons, W.G. & Snyder, M.A. 2019. Reassignments to the Genus Marmorofusus Snyder & Lyons, 2014 (Neogastropoda: Fasciolariidae: Fusininae) of species from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and southwestern Australia. Zootaxa 4714(1): 1-64

 

Generic Combinations

• Fusinus philippi (Jonas, 1846). —
  Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 [208] (new combination)
• Marmorofusus philippii (Jonas, 1846). —
  Lyons, W.G. & Snyder, M.A. 2019. Reassignments to the Genus Marmorofusus Snyder & Lyons, 2014 (Neogastropoda: Fasciolariidae: Fusininae) of species from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and southwestern Australia. Zootaxa 4714(1): 1-64 [44] (new combination)
• Marmorofusus tessellatus (Sowerby, 1846). —
  Snyder, M.A. & Lyons, W.G. 2014. The Fusinus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798) group: Marmarofusus gen. nov., with descriptions of three new species (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae). Vita Malacologica 12: 37-53
• Fusinus (Fusinus) tessellatus (Sowerby, 1880). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [69, pl. 13, figs 3a-b]
• Fusinus tessellatus (Sowerby, 1880). —
  Hodgkin, E.P., Kendrick, G., Marsh, L. & Slack-Smith, S. 1966. The shelled Gastropoda of South Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist Club Handbook no. 9: 1-60 [40] (new combination)

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Algal substrate, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

 

General References

Lyons, W.G. & Snyder, M.A. 2019. Reassignments to the Genus Marmorofusus Snyder & Lyons, 2014 (Neogastropoda: Fasciolariidae: Fusininae) of species from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and southwestern Australia. Zootaxa 4714(1): 1-64

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. [205]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [69, pl. 13, figs 3a-b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [65, pl. 182] (Tessellate Spindle Shell)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Feb-2020	HYPSOGASTROPODA	24-Feb-2020	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	30-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED