Species Hydroginella columnaria (Hedley & May, 1908)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Marginella columnaria Hedley, C. & May, W.L. 1908. Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 108-125, pls 22-25 [120, pl. 23, fig. 19].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.28936 dry, off Cape Pillar, Tasmania, Australia [43°13'1.2'S,148°4'58.8'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pillarginella columnaria (Hedley & May, 1908). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [210]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [389]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [60]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [228]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MARGINELLIDAE	18-Jan-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED