Species Nebularia acuminata (Swainson, 1824)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra acuminata Swainson, W. 1824. The character of several new shells belonging to the Linnaean Volutae, with a few observations on the present state of conchology. Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts 17(33): 28-38 [36].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Mauritius.
• Mitra lutea Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 2 pp. 321-686. [650, pl. 45, figs 7-9].

  Type data:

   Holotype port Dorey, New Guinea.

 

Generic Combinations

• Mitra (Strigatella) acuminata Swainson, 1824. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [151]
• Nebularia acuminata (Swainson, 1824). —
  Fedosov, A.E., Puillandre, N, Herrmann, M., Kantor, Y., Loverio, M. Dgebuadze, P., Modica, M.V. & Bouchet, P. 2018. The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183: 253-337

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west and Central Pacific Coral Sea region 18 (AMS C.374600)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks, coral and coral-rubble, on exposed reefs

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [492, pl. 444]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [303]

Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 1984. Contribution to the knowledge of Indian marine molluscs. I. Family Mitridae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 61: 1-48 [24]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [151, pl. 33, figs 9a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	NEOGASTROPODA	25-Sep-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	04-May-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED