Species Metanachis acleonta (Duclos, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columbella acleonta Duclos, P.L. 1840. Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere de tous genres de coquilles univalves marines a l etat vivant et fossile publiee par monographie. Genre Columbelle. Paris : Didot. [pl. 11, fig. 3-4].
• Columbella jaspidea Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1844. Monograph of the genus Columbella. 109-146, pls 36-40 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [132, pl. 39, fig. 125].
• Columbella achatina Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1844. Monograph of the genus Columbella. 109-146, pls 36-40 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [132, pl. 39, fig. 126].
• Columbella valga Gould, A.A. 1850. Shells collected by the United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 169-172 [169].
• Columbella taeniata Adams, A. & Reeve, L. 1849. Mollusca. pp. 2544, pls 1017 in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Vogage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [34, pl. 11, fig. 19].
• Columbella lineolata Gould, A.A. 1860. Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 323-340 [335].
• Pyrene plicaria Souverbie, S.M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1862. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 10: 231-248 [234, pl. 9, fig. 3].
• Columbella flammea Pease, W.H. 1867. Notes on the remarks of Dr. P. P. Carpenter (Published in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865) on certain species of marine Gasteropoda, named by W. Harper Pease. American Journal of Conchology 3(3): 231-234 [233].
• Columbella filamentosa Tryon, G.W. 1883. Marginellidae, Olividae, Columbellidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 5. [136, pl. 50, fig. 44-7].
• Columbella (Mitrella) calliope Melvill, J.C. 1903. A revision of the Columbellidae of the Persian Gulf and North Arabian Sea, with description of C. calliope n.sp. Journal of Malacology 10: 27-31 [29] [as ?Columbella (Mitrella) calliope Melvill, 1903].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 258–339 [321]
• Sleurs, W.J. 1985. The marine microgastropods from the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) II. Family Columbellidae (Subfamily Columbellinae), with description of one new species. Indo-Malayan Zoology 2: 267-280 [271]

 

Generic Combinations

• Zafrona acleonta (Duclos, 1840). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [97]
• Pyrene acleonta (Duclos, 1840). —
  Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 258–339 [321]
• Metanachis acleonta (Duclos, 1840). —
  Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [250, sp. G2889]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Australian Recent and Tertiary Species of the Molluscan Family Pyrenidae. Adelaide : Privately published.

deMaintenon, M. 2008. Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 82: 341-374 [352, fig. 14] (As Metanachis jaspidea)

Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 258–339 [321]

Sleurs, W.J. 1985. The marine microgastropods from the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) II. Family Columbellidae (Subfamily Columbellinae), with description of one new species. Indo-Malayan Zoology 2: 267-280 [271]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [97]

Yen, T.C. 1944. Notes on some unfigured type-specimens of Chinese mollusks. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 38 23: 561-586 [572]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	27-Sep-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		27-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
		09-Nov-2012	MODIFIED