Species Heliacus (Torinista) implexus (Mighels, 1845)
Southern Sundial
Compiler and date details
2011 - Des Beechey & Winston Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney
- Solarium dorsuosum Hinds, R.B. 1844. Description of new species of Solarium from the collection of Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1843: 158 [158] [nomen dubium].
- Solarium homalaxis Melvill, J.C. 1893. Descriptions of twenty-five new species of marine shells from Bombay. Collected by Alexander Abercrombie, Esq. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 4(7): 52-67, pl. 1 [58].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1896.10.1.42, Bombay, India. - Solarium (Torinia) omalaxis Iredale, T. 1911. On some misapplied Molluscan generic names. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9: 253-263 [255].
- Heliacus africanus Bartsch, P. 1915. Report on the Turton collection of South African marine mollusks, with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United States National Museum. United States National Museum Bulletin 91: 1-305, pls 1-54 [123, pl. 24, figs 1, 3, 5].
Type data:
Holotype 249757, Port Alfred, South Africa. - Solarium alfredensis Turton, W.H. 1932. The Marine Shells of Port Alfred, South Africa. London : Oxford University Press 331 pp., 70 pls. [134, pl. 29, fig. 967].
Type data:
Status unknown, B3452/T2468. - Heliacus maorianus Powell, A.W.B. 1934. Upper Pliocene fossils from Cape Runaway. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 1(5): pls 57-60 [268, pl. 58, figs 5-7].
Type data:
Holotype Te Piki, Cape Runaway, Upper Pliocene. - Torinista popula Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [327, pl. 24, fig. 15].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.60692 dry, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'0'S, 151°13'58.8'E]. - Heliacus codoceoae Rehder, H.A. 1980. The marine mollusks of Easter Island (Isla de Pascura) and Sala y Gómez. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 289: 1–167 [32, pl. 5, figs 13-15].
Type data:
Status unknown, 756010, 756163; 756010, 756163.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Bieler, R. 1993. Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 1-377 [205] (gives full synonymy)
Generic Combinations
- Heliacus (Torinista) cf. implexus (Mighels, 1845). —
Garrard, T.A. 1977 [1978]. A revision of Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 31(13): 506-584 [published 31 October 1978, cover date 30 September 1977] [547, pl. 9, figs 16-18] - Torinia implexa (Mighels, 1845). —
Bayer, C. 1948. Catalogue of the Solariidae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. III. Torinia. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 4: 3-44 [37 [synonymy]] - Heliacus implexus (Mighels, 1845). —
Robertson, R. 1967. Heliacus (Gastropoda: Architectonicidae) symbiotic with Zoanthinaria (Coelenterata). Science 156: 246-248 [246] - Heliacus (Torinista) implexus (Mighels, 1845). —
Bieler, R. 1985. Die Gattungen der Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Allogastropoda). Teil 3: Pseuotorinia, Nipteraxis, Heliacus, Eosolarium. Arkiv für Molluskenkunde 116(1-3): 89-117, pls 1-4 [98, pl. 2, fig. 5]
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Heliacus (Torinista) dorsuosue sic. [Mis-spelling of misidentification]. —
Garrard, T.A. 1977 [1978]. A revision of Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 31(13): 506-584 [published 31 October 1978, cover date 30 September 1977] [509, fig. 17] - Heliacus (Torinista) dorsuosus auct. [misidentification. Not Solarium dorsuosum Hinds, 1844 (Nomen dubium). Is Heliacus (Torinista) implexus (Mighels, 1845)]. —
Garrard, T.A. 1977 [1978]. A revision of Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 31(13): 506-584 [published 31 October 1978, cover date 30 September 1977] [541, pl. 2, figs 13-15, pl. 9, figs 1-6]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Hawaiian Islands, Red Sea, Tropical and Temperate Indo-West Pacific, Philippines; Bieler, 1993: distribution map fig. 179, p. 212. 'Continuous range from the African east coast to Easter Islands (Isla de Pascua)'.
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Carnivorous, continental shelf, coral, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.
General References
Bieler, R. 1993. Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 1-377 [205]
Garrard, T.A. 1977 [1978]. A revision of Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 31(13): 506-584 [published 31 October 1978, cover date 30 September 1977] [541]
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. [110] (Southern Sundial)
History of changes
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