Species Phycothais reticulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Purpura reticulata Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1832. Mollusques Zoologie du voyage de l'Astrolabe sous les ordres du Capitiane Dumont d'Urville, pendant les années 1826–29. Paris : J. Tastu 2 vols. [566, pl. 38, fig. 17-18].

  Type data:

   Holotype Port Western, New Holland.
• Purpura humilis Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. 1865. Description d'espèces nouvelles de l'Australie méridionalis. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 38-55 [51, pl. 2, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1870.10.26.89, Bay of St Vincent [Australia].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Claremont, M., Vermeij, G.J., Williams, S.T., & Reid, D.G. 2013. Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91-102 [93, Table 1]

 

Generic Combinations

• Ricinula reticulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832). —
  Verco, J.C. 1895. A revision of the Recent Gastropods of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19: 94-107 [101]
• Lepsiella reticulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832). —
  Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [178]
• Phycothais reticulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832). —
  Tan, K.S. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australian and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Journal of Natural History 37: 911-1028 [956]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocks, seagrass.

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Lepsiella reticulata (Blainville, 1832). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Rapaninae/Pages/lepsiella_reticulata.htm (date accessed 26/10/11; incorrect authorship)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [178, fig. 213]

Phillips, D.A.B., Handreck, C., Bock, P.E., Burn, R., Smith, B.J. & Staples, D.A. (eds) 1984. Coastal Invertebrates of Victoria: an atlas of selected species. Melbourne : Marine Research Group of Victoria & Museum of Victoria 168 pp. [58]

Tan, K.S. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australian and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Journal of Natural History 37: 911-1028 [956]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [43, pl. 3, fig. 22]

 

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Muricidae. Royal Society of South Australia, Malacological Section, Publication 8. 2 pls, 8 unnumbered [no. 3] (Net Lepsiella)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [178] (Reticulated Lepsiella)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	12-Oct-2011	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		11-Oct-2011	MODIFIED