Species Gyroscala commutata (Monterosato, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scalaria lamellosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [27].
• Scalaria perplexa Pease, W.H. 1868. Description of sixty-five new species of marine gastropodae, inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 3(4): 271-297 [Date published 1868: dated 1867] [288].
• Scala perplicata Iredale, T. 1929. Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 337-352, pls 37-38 [344].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sydney Harbour, NSW.
• Pomiscala reevesbyi Cotton, B.C. 1939. Reports of the Expedition of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Mollusca. Part 2: General. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 51(1): 159-176 [172].
• Epitonium pyramis Tinker, S. 1952. Pacific Sea Shells. A handbook of common marine mollusks of Hawaii and the south seas. Tokyo : Tuttle 240 pp. [106, figs].
• Scalaria consors Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. 1864. Diagnoses Mollkuscorum Australiae méridionalis. Journal de Conchyliologie 12: 346-350 [347].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1870.10.26.102, ‘in sinu Saint-Vincent’ [South Australia].

  Type locality references:

  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 [56].

 

Generic Combinations

• Opalia consors (Crosse & Fischer, 1864). —
  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]
• Gyroscala (Pomiscala) lamellosa (Lamarck, 1822). —
  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]
• Gyroscala lamellosa (Lamarck, 1822). —
  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 [94]
• Epitonium (Gyroscala) perplexum (Pease, 1868). —
  Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [75]
• Epitonium (Gyroscala) pyramis (Tinker, 1952). —
  Rehder, H.A. 1980. The marine mollusks of Easter Island (Isla de Pascura) and Sala y Gómez. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 289: 1–167 [51, pl. 7, fig. 8]

 

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

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)

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [104, fig. 11] (Perplexing Ladder Shell)

 

History of changes

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