Species Maoricrypta immersa (Angas, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crepidula immersa Angas, 1865.

 

Generic Combinations

• Maoricrypta immersa (Angas, 1865). —
  Hoagland, K.E. 1977. Systematic review of fossil and Recent Crepidula and discussion of evolution of the Calyptraeidae. Malacologia 16(2): 353-420

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, shell, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Attached to dead gastropod shells; to 350 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2007. Crepidula immersa Angas, 1865. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Calyptraeidae/Pages/Crepidula_immersa.htm (date accessed 23/01/2012)

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 [M57]

Hoagland, K.E. 1977. Systematic review of fossil and Recent Crepidula and discussion of evolution of the Calyptraeidae. Malacologia 16(2): 353-420 [380]

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 [44]

Ludbrook, N.H. 1957. The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. IV — Gastropoda (Turritellidae to Struthiolariidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 80: 17-58, pl. 1-4 [52]

Macpherson, J.H. 1966. Port Phillip Survey 1957–1963. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 27: 201–288 [217]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [131]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [57]

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. XXVI, fig. 19]

Verco, J.C. 1912. Shells from the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 206-232 [207]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [164]

 

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. [85] (for Zeacrypta immersa) (Southern Slipper Limpet)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	30-Aug-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	CALYPTRAEOIDEA	25-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		17-Jan-2012	MODIFIED