Species Mitrella moleculina (Duclos, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Colombella moleculina Duclos, P.L. 1840. Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere de tous genres de coquilles univalves marines a l etat vivant et fossile publiee par monographie. Genre Columbelle. Paris : Didot. [pl. 9, fig. 1-2].
• Columbella inscripta Brazier, J. 1877. Shells collected during the Chevert Expedition, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(3): 224-240 [230].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.170951 dry, in crevice in Madrepora on reef, low tide, Torres Strait, west side of Warrior Reef, Queensland, Australia [9°43'1.2"S, 142°58'1.2"E]; AM C.170949 dry, sandy mud bottom, Cape York, Queensland, Australia [10°43'1.2"S, 142°31'58.8"E]; AM C.170950 dry, broken coral, coarse sand and stones, Percy Ids, Middle (No.2) Island, Queensland, Australia [21°38'60"S, 150°14'31.2"E]; AM C.170952 dry, under coral block on reef, Torres Strait, Darnley Island, Queensland, Australia [9°34'58.8"S, 143°46'1.2"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Mitrella moleculina (Duclos, 1840). —
  Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [429]
• Pyrene moleculina (Duclos, 1840). —
  Hedley, C. 1907. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland, part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 476–513, pls 16–21 [485]
• Columbella moleculina (Duclos, 1840). —
  Hedley, C. 1901. A revision of the types of the marine shells of the "Chevert" Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 121-130 [123]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific. Records from AM collection: Region 18 Coral Sea (C.327245); Region 14 Middleton Reef (C.327246); NT region 26 (C.308344); QLD region 41 C.308342; QLD region 40 (C.30699); WA regiopn 27 (C.305670)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Drivas, J. & Jay, M. 1990. The Columbellidae of Réunion Island (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annals of the Natal Museum 31: 163-200 [174]

Hedley, C. 1901. A revision of the types of the marine shells of the "Chevert" Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum 4: 121-130 [123, pl. 16, fig. 8]

Hedley, C. 1907. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland, part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 476–513, pls 16–21 [485]

Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [52]

Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [429, pl. 213, fig. 26]

Thiele, J. 1930. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. pp. 561-596, 1 pl. (pl. 4) in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905 herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. W. Michaelson und Prof. Dr. R. Hartmeyer. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5(8). [583]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	03-Oct-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		30-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED