Genus Harpa Röding, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Harpa 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] [149] [Museum Boltenianum, 2: 149; Harpa Pallas, 1774, Spicilegia Zoologica, 1(10): 33, is listed as a separate entry in Nomenclator Zoologicus. Neither it, nor Harpa Walch, 1771 [as used by Wenz] was discussed in Opinion 1436, 1987, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 44(2): 137, which placed Harpa Röding, 1798 on the Official List. Harpa Pallas is based on an illustration depicting Trophon geversianus [Muricidae]. See also Harparia and Harpites].

  Type species:

   Buccinum harpa Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation (tautonymy).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumtropical, except the western Atlantic

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northeast Province (18), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [137]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	HARPIDAE	18-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED