Species Macroschisma bakiei Sowerby, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macroschisma bakiei Sowerby, G.B. 1862. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 3. [206, pl. 244, fig. 221] [Adams ms].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Albany, Western Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [76-77]

Generic Combinations

• Foralepas bakeiei (A. Adams in Sowerby, 1962). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [76-77, fig. 37]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, under stones.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [76-77, fig. 37] (as Foralepas bakeiei)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [54, pl. 6, fig. 7a-b]

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [77] (as Foralepas bakeiei) (Baker's Slot Limpet)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [90, pl. 91E] (Rough-backed Keyhole Limpet)

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