Subspecies Merica melanostoma westralis (Garrard, 1975)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancellaria (Merica) melanostoma westralis Garrard, T.A. 1975. A revision of Australian Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 30: 1-62 [5, pl. 1, figs 2-3].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 697-44, Turtle Bay, North-West Cape, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [208]

Generic Combinations

• Merica melanostoma westralis (Garrard, 1975). —
  Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [208-209]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

General References

Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [208-209]

Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. 1990. Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Nautilus, Supplement 1: 1-69 [47]

Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. 2005. Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) — 2nd edition. Zootaxa 1102: 1-161 [113]

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

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