Species Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix janthina Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [772].

  Type data:

   Lectotype LSUK not registered (illustration in Laursen (1953: fig. 15.3, Fig. 33.3)).
  Syntype(s) LSUK 4 specimens (syntypes illustrated by Laursen (1953: pl. 1, fig. 1)).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Beu, A.G. 2017. Evolution of Janthina and Recluzia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Records of the Australian Museum 69(3): 119–222 [187].

  Secondary source:

   Laursen, D. 1953. The genus Ianthina. Dana Reports 38: 3-40 [pl. 1, fig. 1].
• Janthina violacea Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [75].

  Type data:

   Neotype LSUK not registered (specimen illustrated by Laursen (1953: fig. 15.3, fig. 33.3)).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Beu, A.G. 2017. Evolution of Janthina and Recluzia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Records of the Australian Museum 69(3): 119–222 [187].
• Janthina fragilis Lamarck, J.B. 1801. Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou, tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaus; présentant leurs caractères essentials et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précéde du Discours d'ouverture de l'an VIII de la République. Paris : Déterville viii 432 pp. [89].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMG INVE41376 3 specimens (formerly NHMG1094/79; same syntypes of Janthina communis).
• Janthina communis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Suite des Gastéropodes. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(2) 232 pp. [Date published Apr. 1822] [206].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMG INVE41376 3 specimens (formerly NHMG1094/79; same syntypes of Janthina fragilis).
• Ianthina bicolor Menke, K.T. 1828. Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum earum quae in museo Menkeano adservantur. Pyrmonti : Georgi Uslar xii + 91 pp. [84].

  Type data:

   Neotype LSUK not registered (illustrated by Laursen (1953: fig. 15.3)).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Beu, A.G. 2017. Evolution of Janthina and Recluzia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Records of the Australian Museum 69(3): 119–222 [187].
• Janthina vulgaris Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242 [148] [nomen nudum].
• Janthina planispirata Adams, A. & Reeve, L. 1850. Mollusca. pp. 45-87 in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve Vol. 3. [54, pl. 11, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHM-UK 1951.3.14.1–3 3 specimens (ex Cuming collection).
• Janthina striulata var. contorta Carpenter, P.P. 1857. Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum collected by Frederik Reigen. London : British Museum pp. i-xii, 1-552. [186].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHM-UK 1857.6.4.877, Mazatlan, Mexico.
• Janthina roseola Reeve, L.A. 1858. Monograph of the Genus Ianthina. In, Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica; or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 11 plates 1-5 + unpaginated captions. [pl. 1, fig. 1] [original not seen].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHM-UK 1973003 (ex Cuming collection), “Nicobar”.
• Ianthina balteata Reeve, L.A. 1858. Monograph of the Genus Ianthina. In, Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica; or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 11 plates 1-5 + unpaginated captions. [pl. 3, fig. 11a,b].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHM-UK 1976164 3 specimens (ex Cuming collection), “Cape of Good Hope”.
• Janthina smithiae Reeve, L.A. 1858. Monograph of the Genus Ianthina. In, Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica; or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 11 plates 1-5 + unpaginated captions. [pl. 3, figs. 15a-b].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHM-UK 1976167 3 specimens (ex Cuming collection), Glamorganshire, UK.
• Janthina trochoidea Reeve, L.A. 1858. Monograph of the Genus Ianthina. In, Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica; or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 11 plates 1-5 + unpaginated captions. [Pl. 2, figs 10a–b].
• Janthina carpenteri Mörch, OA.L. 1860. Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire de la famile des Janthines. Journal de Conchyliologie 8: 261-285 [277].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beu, A.G. 2017. Evolution of Janthina and Recluzia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Records of the Australian Museum 69(3): 119–222 [185]

 

Generic Combinations

• Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [281, pl. 44, figs 36a-b]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Ianthina janthina sic. (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Laursen, D. 1953. The genus Ianthina. Dana Reports 38: 3-40 [15-22, figs 14-21, pl. 1, fig. 1]
• Ianthina ianthina sic. (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [273, fig. 77]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

In water column, marine, pelagic.

 

General References

Australian Museum 2011. Mollusca: loose leaf system. [Janthinidae]

Beechey, D. 2008. Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Janthinidae/Pages/Janthina_%20janthina.htm (date accessed 9/3/2012)

Bennett, I. 1966. Some pelagic molluscs and associated animals in south-eastern Australian waters. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 1(9): 40-51 [40]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [376]

Dufo, M.H. 1840. Observations sur les Mollusques marins, terrestres et fluviatiles des iles Séchelles et des Amirantes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 2 14, Zoologie: 45–80 (extrait), 166–221(suite) [196]

Graham, A. 1954. Some observations on the reproductive tract of Ianthina janthina (L.). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 31: 1-6 [1] (Reproductive tract)

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [4]

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. [158, fig 55 B]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [118-9]

Malacolog Version 4.1.1 Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758). A database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca by the Academy of Natural Sciences. date accessed 14 March 2012. http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?mode=details&waspid=7864 (date accessed 14 March 2012)

Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1901. The Mollusca of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea, as evidenced mainly through the collections of Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893-1900; with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(ii): 327-460 pls xxi-xxiv [353]

Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [51]

Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls [90-1]

Smith, E.A. 1903. Marine Mollusca. (pp. 589-630, pls. XXXV-XXXVI) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : University Press Vol. II(Part II) pp. 589–698, pls. XXXV-XLVIII). [616]

Subba Rao, N.V. 2003. Indian Seashells (Part 1). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper (192): 1-416 [220]

Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. Census; with brief descriptions of the marine shells of Tasmania and the adjacent islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1877: 26-57 [Date published 14 Jun] [43]

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1986. Seashells of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 207 pp. [60]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [281, pl. 44, figs 36a-b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [298, pl. 809] (Large Violet Snail)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [134, pl. 135] (Common Violet Sea Snail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	28-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	25-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED