Species Livonia roadnightae (McCoy, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta roadnightae McCoy, F. 1881. Description of a new volute from the south coast of Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18: 88-89, pl. 7, figs 1-2 [88, pl. 7, figs 1-2].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F662, Lake's Entrance, Victoria, Australia.
• Livonia quisqualis Iredale, T. 1957. An intriguing Volute. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1955-56: 121-123, fig. 121 [121, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.34551 dry, Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia [38°0'0'S,149°45'0'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Scaphella roadnightae (McCoy, 1881). —
  Verco, J.C. 1912. Shells from the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 206-232 [226, pl. 16, figs 1, 2] (New combination)
• Mammillana roadnightae (McCoy, 1881). —
  Smith, M. 1942. A review of the Volutidae. Winter Park, Florida : Tropical Photographic Laboratory pp.1-127, pls 1-26, figs 1-185. [50, pl. 19, fig. 134] (New combination)
• Pterospira roadnightae (McCoy, 1881). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertairy Mollusca, Family Volutidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 181-196 [187] (New combination)
• Livonia roadnightae (McCoy, 1881). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [124, pl. 24, figs 2a-c; pl. 24A, fig. 1]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic to Australia, Southern NSW to Rottnest Island, WA.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, mud-silt, sand, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

85-180 m; 300 m.

 

General References

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [157,pl. 58, figs 1-3]

Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375. [49, pls 18a, 18B]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [124,pl. 24, fig. 2a-c,pl. 24A, fig. 1]

 

Common Name 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. [165] (as Pterospira roadnightae) (Roadnight's Volute)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	02-Feb-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED