Genus Gyroscala de Boury, 1887

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pomiscala Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [303] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Scala perplicata Iredale, 1929 by original designation.
• Pictoscala Dall, W.H. 1917. Notes on the shells of the genus Epitonium and its allies of the Pacific coast of America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 53(2217): 471–488 [477] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Scalaria lineata Say, 1822 by subsequent designation, see Boury, E. de. 1919. Étude sur les scalaires de la côte pacifique américaine a propos d'un récent travail de M. Dall. Journal de Conchyliologie 64(1): 33–40 [37].
• Turbona Mörch, O.A.L. 1875. Synopsis familiæ Scalidarum Indiarum occidentalium = Oversigt over Vestindiens Scalarier. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 250–268 [259] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Scalaria lamellosa Lamarck, 1822 by subsequent designation, see Clench, W.J. & Turner, R.D. 1951. The genus Epitonium in the western Atlantic. Part 1. Johnsonia 2: 249–288 [280].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. 2015. Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa 3907(1): 1-188 [31]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Nakayama, T. 2000. Descriptions of a new subgenus, fourteen new species, and three substituted names of Epitoniids from Japan (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Venus 59(4): 277-292 [279]

Nakayama, T. 2003. A review of northwest Pacific Epitoniids (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Monographs of marine mollusca No. 6. Leiden, The Netherlands : Backhuys Publishers pp. 1-143. [77]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	18-Dec-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED