Species Turriplicifer australis (Swainson, 1820)
- Mitra australis Swainson, W. 1820. Zoological Illustrations, or original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their natural affinities. Vol. 1. London : Baldwin & Craddock 1st Series pls 1–18. [issued 1820, dated 1820–1823] [pl. 18].
Type data:
Lectotype Van Diemans Land. - Mitra melaleuca 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. [657, pl. 45, fig. 26-7].
Type data:
Status unknown, MNHP, probably Port Roi Georges, New Holland. - Mitra kieneri 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. [32, pl. 357, fig. 324] [non Philippi, 1850].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1879.2.26.128. - Mitra vincentiana Verco, J.C. 1896. Descriptions of new species of marine Mollusca of South Australia. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 20: 217-232 [223, pl. 8, fig. 3] [non Cossmann, 1881].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA D-13508, Investigator's Straits, South Australia, 13-15 fathoms.
Generic Combinations
- Vexillum (Pusia) australe (Swainson, 1820). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [167] - Turriplicifer australe (Swainson, 1820). —
Fedosov, A.E., Puillandre, N., Herrmann, M., Dgebuadze, P. & Bouchet, P. 2017. Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 541-626
Distribution
States
South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, coral reef, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, stones, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
On reef-flats and under stones
General References
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190 [56]
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1980. Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent temperate species of the family Costellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 16: 109-169 [124]
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [167, pl. 31, fig. 5, pl. 36, figs 32a-b]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-Jun-2021 | COSTELLARIIDAE | 12-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
| 15-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED |