Species Hiatavolva depressa (Sowerby, 1875)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ovulum depressum Sowerby, G.B.(3rd) 1875. Descriptions of ten new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 125-129 [128].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 39445, Northwest Australia.
• Ovulum philippinarum Tryon, G.W. 1885. Manual of Conchology - Structural and Systematic: With Illustrations of the Species. 1 Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 7 308, 63 pl. [252].
• Radius gracillimus Schilder, F.A. 1927. Revision der Cypraeacea (Moll. Gastr.). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 91A: 1-171 [79].
• Phenacovolva praenominata Iredale, T. 1935. Australian cowries. The Australian Zoologist 8(2): 96-135, pl. 8-9 [104].

 

Generic Combinations

• Neosimnia (Pellasimnia) depressa (Sowerby, 1875). —
  Allan, J. 1956. Cowry Shells of World Seas. Melbourne : Georgian House 170 pp. [130]
• Hiatavolva depressa (Sowerby, 1875). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [201]
• Birostra depressa (Sowerby, 1875). —
  Paetel 1887. Catalog der Conchylien-Sammlung. I. Die Cephalopoden, Pteropoden und Meeres-Gastropoden. Berlin, Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel. Berlin : Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel pp. 1-16, 1-639. [327]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

Lives on multistemmed sea whips growing on sandy substrates

 

General References

Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [87]

Coleman, N. 2003. 2002 Sea shells catalogue of Indo-Pacific mollusca. Queensland, Australia : Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd pp.1-144. [87]

Fehse, D. 2007. Contributions to the knowledge of the Ovulidae. XVI. The higher systematics. (Mollusca : Gastropoda). Spixiana (Munich) 30(1): 121-125 (included)

Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [135, pls 192, A366]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [201, pl. 24, fig 6]

 

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. [132, fig. 9b] (Depressed Little Egg Cowry)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [221, pl. 621] (Depressed Ovulid)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	05-Mar-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		24-Jan-2012	MODIFIED