Species Harpa amouretta Röding, 1798

• Harpa amouretta 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] [150].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ambon, Indonesia.
• Harpalis amoretta Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38] [114].
• Harpa oblonga Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [208].
• Harpa minor Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [257].
• Harpa crassa Krauss, F. 1848. Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap - und Natallandes und zur geographischen Verbreitung derselben. Stuttgart : Ebner & Seubert 140 pp. 6 pls. [119].
• Harpa solidula Adams, A. 1854. Descriptions of new species of shells, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 21: 173-176 [Date published Dec 1854] [173, pl. 20, fig. 9,10].
• Harpa virginalis Sowerby, G.B. 1860. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. III. [173, pl. 233, figs 34, 35].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Harpa solida [sic.]. —
  Sowerby, G.B. 1860. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. III. [172]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific. Additional record from AMS collection: Coral Sea (C.321558). Wilson (1994) gave the distribution as Scott Reef, WA, to Queensland, but there are insufficient records to support a continuous distribution across northern Australia.

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

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, marine, reef flats, sand, shallow water.

Extra Ecological Information

Found singly under a foot or more of sand in small deep pockets of the seaward reef flats (Cocos-Keeling)

 

General References

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. [284]

Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [140]

Rehder, H.A. 1973. The family Harpidae of the world. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(16): 207-274 [240, pls 183, 189, figs 6-11; pl. 211]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [137, pl. 30, figs 11a-c]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [110]

 

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. [171] (Lesser Harp)

 

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)
		24-Nov-2011	MODIFIED