Species Merica elegans (Sowerby, 1822)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancellaria elegans Sowerby, G.B. (1st) & Sowerby, J. (ill.) 1822. The genera of Recent and Fossil shells. London : Sowerby pts 2-13. [fig. 3].
• Cancellaria reeveana Crosse, H. 1861. Etude sur le genre Cancellaire, suivie du catalogue des espèces vivantes et fossiles actuellement connues. Journal de Conchyliologie 9: 220-256 [237].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Petit, R.E. 2013. Pers. comm. . (Notes that Cancellaria subsinensis (Loebbecke, 1881) is not a synonym as given by Hemmen (2007))

 

Generic Combinations

• Merica elegans (Sowerby, 1822). —
  Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [128-129]
• Cancellaria (Merica) elegans Sowerby, 1822. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [174, pl. 37, fig. 21]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Phuket, Philippines.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, mud-silt, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 50 m

 

General References

Garrard, T.A. 1975. A revision of Australian Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 30: 1-62 [3]

Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. 2005. Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) — 2nd edition. Zootaxa 1102: 1-161 [47]

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [78]

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1978. An illustrated checklist of marine shelled gastropods from Phuket Island, adjacent mainland and offshore islands, Western Peninsula, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 21: 1-22, 259 figs [17]

Verhecken, A. 1986. The recent Cancellariidae of Indonesia (Neogastropoda, Cancellariacea). Gloria Maris 25(2): 29-66 [40]

Verhecken, A. 1997. Mollusca Gastropoda: Arafura Sea Cancellariidae collected during the KARUBAR Cruise. pp. 295-323 in . Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM Volume 16. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] Tome 172. [308]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [174]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CANCELLARIOIDEA	25-Jan-2012	MOVED
01-Jun-2021		11-Jan-2012	MODIFIED
		23-Nov-2011	MODIFIED