Species Isara cookii (Sowerby, 1874)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra cookii Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1874. Mongraph of the genus Mitra. 1-46, pls 352-379 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 4. [7, pl. 14, fig. 228].

  Type data:

   Holotype 1900.2.13.10, "Australia", further restricted by Cernohorsky (1976: 343) to Sydney, NSW, Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [343].

 

Generic Combinations

• Isara cookii (Sowerby, 1874). —
  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

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Wilson (1993), no doubt based on Cernohorsky (1976), lists this species as extending southwards to Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, but that is wrong. It is not recorded from Victoria by Macpherson & Gabriel (1962), from Tasmania by Grove et al. (2006), or from South Australia by Cotton (1959). There are no specimens in the Australian Museum collection south of Shellharbour, NSW.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocks, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Beechey, D.L. 2003. Mitra cookii Sowerby, 1874. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Mitridae/Pages/Mitra_cookii.htm

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [342, pl. 296]

DeVantier, L., Williamson, D. & Willan, R. 2010. Nearshore Marine Biodiversity of the Sunshine Coast, South-East Queensland: Inventory of molluscs, corals and fishes. Baseline Survey Report to the Noosa Integrated Catchment Association. 107 pp. (Queensland record)

Laseron, C. 1951. Notes on the New South Wales Mitras, with special reference to their protoconchs. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 335-343, text figs 1-11 [340]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [145, pl. 31, figs 3a-b]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [182] (for Vicimitra cookii) (Cook's Mitre)

 

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	31-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED