Species Monophorus rufulus (Watson, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Triforis rufula Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [566, pl. 42, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1887.2.9.1768, Wednesday Is., Torres Strait [10°30'S 142°18'E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1887.2.9.1769–71 3 specimens, Wednesday Is., Torres Strait.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Albano, P.G., Bakker, P.A.J. & Sabelli, B. 2019. Annotated catalogue of the types of Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom, London. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95(1): 161-308 [303, Fig. 117].

Generic Combinations

• Triphora rufula (Watson, 1886). —
  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 [481]
  Albano, P.G., Bakker, P.A.J. & Sabelli, B. 2019. Annotated catalogue of the types of Triphoridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Natural History Museum of the United Kingdom, London. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95(1): 161-308
• Notosiniter rufula (Watson, 1886). —
  Laseron, C. 1958. The Family Triphoridae (Mollusca) from Northern Australia, also Triphoridae from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 9(4): 569-658, figs 1-255 [632, figs 196,197]
• Monophorus rufula (Watson, 1886).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

14-36 m

General References

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 [481]

Laseron, C. 1958. The Family Triphoridae (Mollusca) from Northern Australia, also Triphoridae from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 9(4): 569-658, figs 1-255 [632]

History of changes