Species Lampasopsis rhodostoma (Beck in G.B. Sowerby II, 1835)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ranella rhodostoma Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1836. Ranella. pls 84-85, 88-89, 92-93 in Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) (ed). The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby (2nd). [pl.88 fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1966542/1-3, Isl. Masbate of the Philippines.
• Ranella paulucciana Tapparone-Canefri, C.M. 1876. Intorno ad alcune specie di testacei marini mal conoscuite o nuove dell' Isola Maurizo. Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana, Pisa 2: 241-244 [244].
• Ranella xantostoma Tapparone-Canefri, C.M. 1878. Catalogue de coquilles rapportées de la Nouvelle-Guinée par M. Rafray. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 3: 244-277 [249].
• Ranella bergeri Tapparone-Canefri, C.M. 1880 [1881]. Glanures dans la faune malacologique de I'Île Maurice. Catalogue de la famille des Muricidés (Woodward). Annales de la Société Malacologique de Belgique 15(1): 1–103, pls 2, 3 [date of publication uncertain, could be 1880 fide Neave; also issued as a separate, Bruxelles, 1881] [50, pl. 2, figs 1-2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG.

 

Generic Combinations

• Bursa rhodostoma (Beck in G. B. Sowerby II, 1835). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [227, pl. 43, fig. 5]
• Lampadopsis rhodostoma (Beck in G. B. Sowerby II, 1835). —
  Habe, T. (ed.) 1961. Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 xii + 183 + 42 pp., 66 pl. [47, pl. 24, fig. 1]
  Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256
• Lampasopsis rhodostoma (Beck in G.B. Sowerby II, 1835).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, continental shelf, coral reef, marine, rocks, sand, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Feeds on polychaete worms & sipunculids;13-160 m; on broken coral substrate

 

General References

Abbott, R.T. & Dance, S.P. 1982. Compendium of Seashells: a colour guide to more than 4,200 of the world's marine shells. New York : E. P. Dutton pp. i-x, 1-411. [128, text fig.]

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [163, figs 47g, 52h, k , 58e]

Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120 [69-70, fig. 2H]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1967. The Bursidae, Cymatiidae and Colubrariidae of Fiji. Veliger 9(3): 310-329 [314, pl. 43, fig. 9, text fig. 5]

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [75, pl. 24, fig. 1]

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. [229, fig. 80c, d]

Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Ranella. pls 1-8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 7, fig. 32]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [307, fig. 181]

Schepman, M.M. 1909. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 2. Taenioglossa and Ptenoglossa. 109-231, pls 10-16 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Leiden : Brill Vol. 49. [118]

Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1841. Descriptions of eight new species of the genus Ranella. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 9: 51-53 [51]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [227, pl. 43, fig. 5]

 

Common Name References

Abbott, R.T. & Dance, S.P. 1982. Compendium of Seashells: a colour guide to more than 4,200 of the world's marine shells. New York : E. P. Dutton pp. i-x, 1-411. [128] (Wine-mouth Frog Shell)

Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Ranella. pls 1-8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [species 32] (The Rose-mouth Ranella)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	05-Oct-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	09-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED