Species Janthina pallida (Thompson, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Janthina pallida Thompson, W. 1840. Contributions towards a knowledge of the Mollusca Nudibranchia and Mollusca Tunicata of Ireland, with descriptions of some apparently new species of invertebrata. Annals of Natural History 5: 84-101 [96, pl. 2, fig. 2] [under “J. nitens?”, name attributed to Harvey; tentatively a new species].
• Janthina patula Philippi, R.A. 1844. Enumeratio Molluscorum Siciliae. Fauna Molluscorum viventium et in tellure tertiaria fossilium regni utriusque Siciliae. Continfns addenda et emendenda, nec non compar. faunae recenti Siciliae cum faunis aliarum terrarum et cum fauna periodi tertiaiae. Eduard Anton : Halis Saxonum (Halle) Vol. 2 iv + 298 pp. 16 pls. [224, pl. 28, fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Prope Neapoli.
• Ianthina striolata 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. 9].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Pacific Ocean.

 

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 [194]
• Malacolog Version 4.1.1 Janthina pallida W. Thompson, 1840. 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=11037 (see for complete synonymy)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

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]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [119]

Malacolog Version 4.1.1 Janthina pallida W. Thompson, 1840. 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=11037 (date accessed 14 March 2012)

Thorpe, C.E. 1844. British Marine Conchology; Being a Descriptive Catalogue, Arranged According to the Lamarckian System, of the Salt Water Shells of Great Britain, by Charles Thorpe, Assisted by Several Distinguished Conchologists, and Illustrated with Numerous Delineations of the Rarer and Unfigured Species by G. B. Sowerby and W. Wood. London : E. Lumley pp. [152]

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CAENOGASTROPODA	23-Apr-2021	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	26-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	14-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED