• Monilea Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [220, 352].

  Type species:

   Trochus calliferus Lamarck, 1822 by monotypy.
• Talopia Gray, J.E. 1840. Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. London : G. Woodfall and Son 42nd Edn., 1st impression (16 October 1840), [iv] + 370 pp. [147] [nomen nudum].
• Talopia Gray, J.E. 1842. Shells of Molluscous Animals. pp. 48-92 in Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum. London : British Museum 44th Edn. [57, 89].

  Type species:

   Trochus calliferus Lamarck, 1822 by subsequent monotypy, see Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242 [145].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from India to Tonga

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), 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), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1960. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part I. Mollusca 1. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press xxiii + 351 pp. [I261]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [93]

History of changes

• Trochus callifera Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [27].
• Trochus rigata Philippi, R.A. 1849. Centuria altera Testaceorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1848: 123-128 [124].
• Trochus belcheri Philippi, R.A. 1849. Diagnosen mehrerer neuer Trochus arten. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 9 6(10): 146-160 [148].
• Monilea lentiginosa Adams, A. 1853. Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 150-192 [188].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ilo Ilo, Island of Panay, 7 fathoms.
• Trochus (Monilea) masoni Nevill, G. & Nevill, H. 1874. On new marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 43(2): 21-30 [28].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Andamans.
• Talopia dividua Iredale, T. 1929. Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 337-352, pls 37-38 [340, pl. 37, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Daintree River mouth beach.

Generic Combinations

• Monilea callifera (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [94]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific. Also Coral Sea Region 18 (AMS C.008475)

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

In sandy mud, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Monilea lentiginosa A. Adams 1853. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Trochidae/Pages/Umboniinae/Monilea_lentiginosa.htm (date accessed 19-9-11)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [35, pl. 9, fig. 5]

Hickman, C.S. & McLean, J.H. 1990. Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Science Series 35: i-vi, 1-169 [128] (fig. 83c, anatomy)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [33] (Trochus callifera Lamarck, 1822 given as type species of Talopia)

Jansen, P. 1993. The family Trochidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Sydney metropolitan area and adjacent coast. The Australian Zoologist 29(1-2): 49-61 [60]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [94, pl. 11, figs 19a-c]

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [96, pl. 290] (Shrewd Trochid)

History of changes

• Monilea lentiginosa Adams, A. 1853. Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 150-192 [188].
• Talopia morti Iredale, T. 1929. Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 337-352, pls 37-38 [339, pl. 37, fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sydney Habour, New South Wales, Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

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), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Monilea lentiginosa A. Adams 1853. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Trochidae/Pages/Umboniinae/Monilea_lentiginosa.htm (date accessed 19-9-11)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [33, sp. 592] (as Talopia morti)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [94]

History of changes