Species Isara cookii (Sowerby, 1874)
Cook's Mitre
- Mitra cookii Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1874. Mongraph of the genus Mitra. 1-46, pls 352-379 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 4. [7, pl. 14, fig. 228].
Type data:
Holotype 1900.2.13.10, "Australia", further restricted by Cernohorsky (1976: 343) to Sydney, NSW, Australia.Type locality references:
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [343].
Generic Combinations
- Isara cookii (Sowerby, 1874). —
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
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Wilson (1993), no doubt based on Cernohorsky (1976), lists this species as extending southwards to Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, but that is wrong. It is not recorded from Victoria by Macpherson & Gabriel (1962), from Tasmania by Grove et al. (2006), or from South Australia by Cotton (1959). There are no specimens in the Australian Museum collection south of Shellharbour, NSW.
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Ecological Descriptors
Intertidal, marine, rocks, shallow subtidal.
General References
Beechey, D.L. 2003. Mitra cookii Sowerby, 1874. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Mitridae/Pages/Mitra_cookii.htm
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [342, pl. 296]
Laseron, C. 1951. Notes on the New South Wales Mitras, with special reference to their protoconchs. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 335-343, text figs 1-11 [340]
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [145, pl. 31, figs 3a-b]
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. [182] (for Vicimitra cookii) (Cook's Mitre)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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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 |