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Species Gyroscala commutata (Monterosato, 1877)

Perplexing Ladder Shell

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean, Atlantic, Indo Pacific: Maldives, Persian Gulf


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocks, tide pools.

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2008. Epitonium lamellosum (Lamarck, 1822). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Epitoniidae/Pages/Epitonium_lamellosum.htm (date accessed 7/3/2012)

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [1]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [376] (Opalia consors)

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. [156]

Kerslake, J. 1968. A note on Epitonium (Gyroscala) perplexum Pease in Australia (Gastropoda:Epitoniidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 11: 68-70 [68]

Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1901. The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893-1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(ii): 327-460 pls xxi-xxiv [356] (Opalia consors)

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. [78, pl. 5, figs 1, 4, 2-3]

Powell, A.W.B. 1965. New Zealand molluscan systematics with descriptions of new species. Part 5. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 6(2): 161-168, pls 122, 123 [161]

Smith, E.A. 1903. Marine Mollusca. (pp. 589-630, pls. XXXV-XXXVI) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : University Press Vol. II(Part II) pp. 589–698, pls. XXXV-XLVIII). [598] (Opalia consors)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024 LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975 06-Sep-2023 MODIFIED Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021 EPITONIOIDEA 15-Sep-2015 ADDED Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
01-Jun-2021 07-Mar-2012 MODIFIED
13-Feb-2012 MODIFIED