Species Gibberula agapeta (Watson, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Marginella agapeta Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [266, pl. 16, fig. 9].
• Marginella punicea Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [38, pl. 5, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.103367 dry, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia [35°1'58.8'S,150°43'58.8'E].
• Marginella quinqueplicata Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [41, pl. 5, fig. 22] [not Lamarck].
• Kogomea royana Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [306].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.103382 dry, Twofold Bay, New South Wales, Australia [37°4'58.8'S,149°54'0'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Granula agapeta (Watson, 1886). —
  Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]
• Gibberula agapeta (Watson, 1886). —
  Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [37]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

38-296 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Gibberula agapeta (Watson, 1886). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cystiscidae/pages/Gibberula_agapeta.htm (date accessed 10/01/2012)

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [205]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [67]

Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [35]

Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1917. A systematic list of the Marginellidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6 12: 242-266 [247]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-002]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [141]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYSTISCIDAE	21-Jul-2016	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		16-Nov-2011	MODIFIED