Species Imbricaria flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra flammea Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 2 pp. 321-686. [659, pl. 45, figs 23-25].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Aru Island, Moluccas, Indonesia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164.
• Mitra flammigera Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 1-27 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 22, sp. 173].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1967757.

 

Generic Combinations

• "Ziba" flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [158]
• Imbricaria flammea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Fedosov, A.E., Puillandre, N, Herrmann, M., Kantor, Y., Loverio, M. Dgebuadze, P., Modica, M.V. & Bouchet, P. 2018. The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183: 253-337

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west and Central Pacific; Dampier Archipelago, WA to Lady Musgrave Island, QLD

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, coral rubble, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 9: 195-204 [198]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [105]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164 [52, pl. 45]

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. [312]

Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 1984. Contribution to the knowledge of Indian marine molluscs. I. Family Mitridae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 61: 1-48 [38]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [158, pl. 34, figs 3, 10a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	NEOGASTROPODA	25-Sep-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	31-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED