Species Gelagna succincta (Linnaeus, 1771)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex succinctus Linnaeus, C. 1771. Mantissa Plantarum. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Holmiae Pts 1 & 2 588 pp. [551].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Bohol Islands, Philippines.
• Neptunea doliata 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] [116].

  Type data:

   Neotype Bohol Island, Philippines.
• Triton clandestinum Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. pp. 1-16 in Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Paris : Agasse Part 23 pp. 1-16, pls 391-488. [pl. 433, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype 1100/16/2, Bohol Island, Philippines?.
• Triton confinis Brancsik, C. 1896. Contributions and faunam molluscarum insulae Papua. Jahresheft des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins des Trencsiner Komitäts, Jahrgang 1894/5: 209-228 [211, pl. 5, figs 1a, b].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Astrolabe Bay, Papua New Guinea.

 

Generic Combinations

• Gelagna succincta (Linnaeus, 1771). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [55]
• Linatella (Gelagna) succincta (Linnaeus, 1771). —
  Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp. [110, pl.20, figs 5, 6]
• Cymatium (Gelagna) succinctum (Linnaeus, 1771). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [244, pl. 41, fig. 3]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Gelagna cynocephala auct. Habe & Kosuge, 1966. —
  Habe, T. & Kosuge, S. 1966. Shells of the World in Color. Osaka, Japan : Hoikusha Publishing Vol. II: The Tropical Pacific. 194 pp., 68 pls. [61, pl. 24, fig. 5]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, western Africa

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, marine, mud-silt, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

10-20m

 

General References

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [79, figs 23e, 24a-c]

Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120 [91, fig. 7C]

Beu, A.G. & Cernohorsky, W.O. 1986. Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae. Part 1. Adoption of Ranellidae and review of Linatella Gray, 1857. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13: 241-266 [257, figs 28-33]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1967. The Bursidae, Cymatiidae and Colubrariidae of Fiji. Veliger 9(3): 310-329

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [270, fig. 739]

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [72, pl. 22, fig. 12]

Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp. [110, pl. 20]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [55]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [220, fig. 79B]

Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [63, pl. 6, fig. 28]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [244, pl. 41, fig. 3]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [270] (Smooth Triton)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	12-Jul-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		11-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED