Species Montfortia subemarginata (Blainville, 1819)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Emarginula subemarginata Blainville, H.M.D. de 1819. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Strasbourg : Levrault Vol. 14. [382].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, South Australia.
• Emarginula emarginata Blainville, H.M.D. de 1825. Vers et Zoophytes. In, Levrault, F.G. (ed.). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris & Strassburg : Levrault Vol. 34. [291, pl. 68, fig. 3].
• Emarginula australis Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 3 366 pp. [328, pl. 68, figs 11-14].
• Emarginula tasmaniae Adams, A. & Sowerby, G.B. 1863. Monographs of the genera Cemoria, Cranopsis, Zeidora, Rimula, Emarginula, Scutus & Tugalia. 207-226, pls 245-249 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum. London : Sowerby Vol. 3. [218, pl. 247, fig. 72].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Tasmania.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [57-58]

Generic Combinations

• Hemitoma (Montfortia) subemarginata (Blainville, 1819). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [56-57, pl. 6, figs 34a-c]
• Montfortia subemarginata (Blainville, 1819). —
  McLean, J.H. 2011. Reinstatement of the Fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427 [417-419]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocks.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1945. Southern Australian Gastropoda. Part 1. Streptoneura. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 69(1): 150-171 [150]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [57-58]

Hedley, C. 1915. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 695–755, pls 77–85 [Date published 26 Feb.] [706-708] (as Montfortia subemarginata)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [38, fig. 52]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [56, pl. 6, fig. 34a-c]

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [57] (Margin Notch Limpet)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [38] (Emarginata Slit-Limpet)

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