Species Melo miltonis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta miltonis 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. 29] [Gray MS].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1952.5.13.2, New Holland (Western Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Melo miltonis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SA to Abrolhos, WA.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Direct developer, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Oviparous; to depths of 20 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 miltonis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834))

Cotton, B.C. 1936. The Southern Australian Baler Shell, Melo miltonis Gray. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4: 505-508 [505] (as Melo miltonis Gray)

Cotton, B.C. 1944. Egg Capsule of the South Australian Baler Shell Melo miltonis Gray. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8(1): 143-144 [143]

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] [55] (as Cymbium miltonis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834))

Knudsen, J. 1993. Redescription of the egg mass of Melo miltonis (Griffith and Pidgeon, 1834) (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Volutidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 14: 107-112 [107]

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [190,pl. 86,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. [74,pl. 28E-F]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [125,pl. 27, figs 2, 4, 6, 7; pl. 26A, fig. 2]

 

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. [164] (as Cymbium miltonis) (Milton's Melon Shell)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [252, pl. 694] (Southern Baler Shell)

 

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