Species Strigatella ticaonica (Reeve, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra ticaonica Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 1-27 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 23, fig. 181].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1967895, Ticao Island, Philippine Islands.
• Mitra subrostrata 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. [13, pl. 16, fig. 297].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sandwich Islands [= Hawaiian Islands].
• Mitra (Strigatella) ticaonica vagans Pilsbry, H.A. 1921. Marine Mollusks of Hawaii VIII-XIII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 72: 296-328 [314, pl. 12, figs 14-15].

  Type data:

   Holotype 46790, Hilo, Hawaii.

 

Generic Combinations

• Mitra (Nebularia) ticaonica Reeve, 1844. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [151]
• Strigatella ticaonica (Reeve, 1844). —
  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, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west and Central Pacific Aso Coral Sea region 18 (AMS C.326132); Middleton Reef region 14 (AMS C.373634)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks or coral on a rubble substrate

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [429, pl. 376]

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. [68] (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. [302]

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 [21]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [151, pl. 31, fig. 17]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [144, pl. 431] (Brown Mouthed Coral 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	04-May-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED