Species Imbricaria conovula (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra conovula 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. [655, pl. 45, figs 18-19].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Vanikoro Island, Solomon Islands.
• Conoelix virgo Broderip, W.J. 1836. Characters of new genera and species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1835: 192-197 [197].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH BMNH no. 196712, Raiatea Island, Society Islands.
• Mitra eburnea Philippi, R.A. 1850. Bemerkungen über einige Arten von Mitra. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 7: 22-29 [29].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, Vanikoro Island, Solomon Islands; Marquesas Islands.

 

Generic Combinations

• Imbricaria conovula (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [154]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Cartier Island, NT

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, coral sand, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [105]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164 [137, pl. 137]

Hale, J. 2010. Ecological Character Description for the Pulu Keeling National Park Ramsar Site. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Canberra. 91 pp. (record from Cocos (Keeling) Island)

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. [309]

Taylor, J.D. 1986. Diets of sand living predatory gastropods at Piti Bay, Guam. Asian Marine Biology 3: 47-58 (included in study)

Taylor, J.D. 1989. The diet of coral-reef Mitridae (Gastropoda) from Guam; with a review of other species of the family. Journal of Natural History 23(1): 261-278 (included in study)

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [154]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	20-Dec-2011	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		24-Nov-2011	MODIFIED