Species Melo georginae (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta georginae Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. 1833. The Mollusca and Radiata. pp. 1–192 in Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. (ed.). The Animal Kingdom. London : Whittaker & Co. Vol. 12 601 pp. 40 pls. [601, pl. 34] [Gray's manuscript].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1952.8.1.1, Swan River (western Australia) (in error; subsequently restricted by Broderip in Sowerby (1848) to Moreton Bay, south Queensland, Australia.
• Melo mucronatus Broderip, W.J. 1848. Monograph of the genus Melo. pp. 412-416 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed.). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [415, 416, pl. 83, figs 23-28].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Moreton Bay, in New Holland (Queensland, Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Melo georginae (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From 2 m; to 90 m.

 

General References

Angas, G.F. 1864. Observations on the Geoghraphical Distribution of the Species of Voluta and Cymbium in the Australian Seas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1): 50-55 [Date published July] [54] (as Melo georginae (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834))

Gray, J.E. 1855. Observations of the species of Volutes — Volutidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1855(Part 23): 50-65 [Date published 16 May 1855] [54] (as Cymbium georginae (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834))

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [188,pl. 86, figs 4-5]

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. [74,pl. 28A-B]

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. [74]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [125] (as synonym of Melo amphora (Lightfoot, 1786))

 

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