Species Littoraria luteola (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Littorina luteola Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 2 pp. 321-686. [477-478, pl. 33, figs 4-7].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, Port Jackson, near Sydney, NSW.
• Littorina filosa subcingulata Nevill, G. 1885. Hand List of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part 2. Gastropoda. Calcutta : Government Printer pp. 1-306. [149] [as Littorina filosa var. subcingulata Nevill, 1885].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZSI, Port Jackson (N.S.W, Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Littoraria luteola (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Reid, D.G., Dyal, P. & Williams, S.T. 2010. Global diversification of mangrove fauna: a molecular phylogeny of Littoraria (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 185-201 [187]
• Littoraria (Littorinopsis) luteola (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [145, pl. 18, figs 17a-b]
• Melarhaphe luteola (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) [new combination]. —
  Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M51]
• Melarapha luteola (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) [new combination]. —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [38]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Littorina (Littorinopsis) scabra scabra auct. [misidentification, in part, not Linnaeus, 1758]. —
  Rosewater, J. 1970. The family Littorinidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The subfamily Littorininae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(11): 417-506 [456-461m, pl. 352, fig. 9]
• Littorina scabra auct. [misidentification, not Linnaeus, 1758]. —
  Angas, G.F. 1871. A list of additional species of marine Mollusca to be included in the fauna of Port-Jackson and the adjacent coasts of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871(1): 87-101, pl. 1 [95]
• Littorina (Melaraphe) flammea auct. [misidentification, in part, not Philippi, 1847]. —
  Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls. [245, pl. 43, fig. 36]
• Littorina (Melaraphe) scabra filosa auct. [as Littorina (Melaraphe) scabra var. filosa; Misidentification, in part, not Sowerby, 1832]. —
  Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls. [244]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Mangroves, marine, salt marsh, swamps.

Extra Ecological Information

On leaves and trunks of Avicennia.

 

General 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. [80]

Beechey, D. 2005. Littoraria luteola (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Littorinidae/Pages/Littoraria_luteola.htm (date accessed 1/2/2012)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [38]

Reid, D.G. 1986. The Littorinid Molluscs of Mangrove Forests in the Indo-Pacific Region: the genus Littoraria (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Littorinidae). London : British Museum (Natural History) xv, 250 pp. [159]

Reid, D.G., Dyal, P. & Williams, S.T. 2010. Global diversification of mangrove fauna: a molecular phylogeny of Littoraria (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 185-201 [187-199]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [145, pl. `8, fig. 17a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINOIDEA	31-Jan-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		25-Jan-2012	MODIFIED