Species Mesoginella stilla (Hedley, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Marginella stilla Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [367, text fig. 90].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.16356 dry, mud and pebbles, 5-8 ml off Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia [34°30'21.6'S,151°0'54'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Mesoginella stilla (Hedley, 1903). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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, mud, pebbles.

Extra Ecological Information

27-457 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2003. Mesoginella stilla (Hedley, 1903). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Marginellidae/Pages/Mesoginella_stilla.htm (date accessed 19/01/2012)

Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [360]

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [205]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [68]

Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [35]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [228]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-013]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MARGINELLIDAE	19-Jan-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED