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Species Monoplex parthenopeus (von Salis, 1793)

Hairy Triton, Hairy Whelk, Neopolitan Triton

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan in middle latitudes


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, intertidal flats, marine, mud-silt, rock reef, rocks, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Exposed; sheltered habitats, to 150 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Cymatium parthenopeum (von Salis, 1793). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Ranellidae/Pages/Cymatium_parthenopeum.htm (date accessed 12/7/2012)

Beu, A.G. 1970. The Mollusca of the subgenus Monoplex (family Cymatiidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Biological Sciences 11(17): 225-237, pls 1-5 [229]

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [110, figs 35a-f]

Beu, A.G. 1999. Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae of Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Honshu, Japan. The Yuriyagai 7(1): 1-91 [28, figs 53-61]

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [53, fig. 136]

Cotton, B.C. 1946. Some rare Southern Australian shells. South Australian Naturalist 24(1): 13-16 [14, text fig.]

Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp. [58, pl. 13, fig. 1]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [12, fig. 15]

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 [54]

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. [222]

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1986. Seashells of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 207 pp. [82, pl. 2, fig. 266]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [246, pl. 41, fig. 5]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021 TONNOIDEA 12-Jul-2012 MOVED Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
08-Mar-2012 MODIFIED