History of changes

General References

Bieler, R. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships in the gastropod family Architectonicidae, with notes on the family Mathildidae (Allogastropoda). pp. 205-240 in Ponder, W.F. (ed.). Prosobranch phylogeny: Proceedings of a symposium held at the 9th International Malacological Congress, Edinburgh. Malacological Review Supplement 4: 205-240

Bieler, R. 1995. Mathildidae from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). pp. 595-641 in Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 167: 1-654

Haszprunar, G. 1985. On the anatomy and systematic position of the Mathildidae (Mollusca: Allogastropoda). Zoologica Scripta 14: 201-213

Healy, J.M. 1995. Sperm and spermiogenic ultrastructure in the Mathildidae with a review of sperm morphology and its systematic importance in the Architectonicoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies 61: 361-373

Healy, J.M. 1998. Family Mathildidae. pp. 859-860 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234.

Laseron, C. 1951. The New South Wales Pyramidellidae and the genus Mathilda. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 298-334, figs 1-98

History of changes

• Brookesena Finlay, H.J. 1926. A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 57: 320-485 pls 18-23 [Issued separately 23 Dec 1926; but Vol. 57 issued 10 March, 1927].

  Type species:

   Mathilda neozelanica Suter, 1908 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

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)

General References

Ponder, W.F. 1985. A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 4: 1-221 [108]

History of changes

• Glyptozaria columnaria Cotton, B.C. & Woods, N.H. 1935. The correlation of Recent and fossil Turritellidae of Southern Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5(3): 369-387 [382, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.11438, Cape Pillar, 100 fathoms.
• Opimilda fastigia Laseron, C. 1951. The New South Wales Pyramidellidae and the genus Mathilda. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 298-334, figs 1-98 [332, fig. 83] (Fide Australian Museum collection header label and database).

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.103223, NSW, Port Stephens [32°42'S, 152°5'E].

Generic Combinations

• Brookesena columnaria (Cotton & Woods, 1935) [Fide Australian Museum collection header label].

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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

Marine.

General References

Bieler, R. 1995. Mathildidae from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). pp. 595-641 in Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 167: 1-654 [635]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. Chapter 5. South Australian Gastropoda. Marine, Estuarine, land and Freshwater. pp. 332-448 in Cotton, B.C. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [358]

Grove, S.J., Kershaw, R.C., Smith, B.J. & Turner, E. 2006. A Systematic List of the Marine Molluscs of Tasmania. Launceston, Tasmania : Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery 120 pp. [31, sp. 592] (as Glyptozaria opulenta)

History of changes

• Mathilda Semper, O. 1865. Du genre Mathilda. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 328-341, pl. 8 [330m pl. 8].

  Type species:

   Turbo quadricarinatus Brocchi, 1814 by subsequent designation, see De Boury, E. 1883. Description d'espèces nouvelles de Mathilda du Bassin de Paris er révision du genre. Journal de Conchyliologie 23: 110-153 [112].
• Opimilda Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [187] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Mathilda decorata Hedley, 1903 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea, Japan, New Caledonia, New Zealand, East Africa, South Africa, USA (east coast), Gulf of Oman.

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Bieler, R. 1995. Mathildidae from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). pp. 595-641 in Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 167: 1-654

Haszprunar, G. 1985. On the anatomy and systematic position of the Mathildidae (Mollusca: Allogastropoda). Zoologica Scripta 14: 201-213

Laseron, C. 1951. The New South Wales Pyramidellidae and the genus Mathilda. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 298-334, figs 1-98

History of changes

• Mathilda brevicula Bavay, A. 1922. Coquilles des sables littoraux marins. Journal de Conchyliologie 67: 57-66, pl. 1 [65, pl. 1, fig 11].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, Lifou, New Caledonia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bieler, R. 1995. Mathildidae from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). pp. 595-641 in Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 167: 1-654 [600].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Presence in Australia based on single record from Elizabeth Reef, Coral Sea. Also New Caledonia.

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

12-110 m as dead shells

General References

Bieler, R. 1995. Mathildidae from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). pp. 595-641 in Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 167: 1-654 [600]

History of changes

• Mathilda decorata Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [352, fig. 75].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.16299, 5-8 ml off Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia [34°30'21.6"S, 151°0'54"E].
• Mathildona euglypta Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [186, pl. 40, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.57720, off Montague Island, New South Wales, Australia [36°10'1.2"S, 150°13'58.8"E].
• Opimilda decorata auporia Dell, R.K. 1956. Some new off-shore Mollusca of New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum 3: 27-59 [39-40, fig. 27].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMNZ M8205, Five miles east of North Cape in 75 fathoms, New Zealand.

Generic Combinations

• Opimilda decorata (Hedley, 1903). —
  Thiele, J. 1931. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 2 pp. 377-778. [737]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia, New Zealand.

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Bieler, R. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships in the gastropod family Architectonicidae, with notes on the family Mathildidae (Allogastropoda). pp. 205-240 in Ponder, W.F. (ed.). Prosobranch phylogeny: Proceedings of a symposium held at the 9th International Malacological Congress, Edinburgh. Malacological Review Supplement 4: 205-240 [215, figs. 10, 11]

Bieler, R. 1995. Mathildidae from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). pp. 595-641 in Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 167: 1-654 [607]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. Chapter 5. South Australian Gastropoda. Marine, Estuarine, land and Freshwater. pp. 332-448 in Cotton, B.C. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [358]

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 [M97]

Hedley, C. & Petterd, W.P. 1906. Mollusca from three hundred fathoms, off Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 211-225 [214]

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 [86]

Laseron, C. 1951. The New South Wales Pyramidellidae and the genus Mathilda. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 298-334, figs 1-98 [331, fig. 80]

Laseron, C. 1951. The New South Wales Pyramidellidae and the genus Mathilda. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 298-334, figs 1-98 [333, fig. 85] (As Glyptozaria euglypta)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [99]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [98]

May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. [Date published 31 July 1923] [pl. 44, fig. 8]

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