Species Morula (Morula) echinata (Reeve, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ricinula echinata Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Ricinula. pls 1-6 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [54, pl. 6, fig. 54].
• Engina nodulifera Pease, W.H. 1860. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands, Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 141–148 [142].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Houart, R. 2002. Comments on a group of small Morula s.s. species (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Rapaninae) from the Indo-Pacific with the description of two new species. Novapex 3(4): 97-118 [102] (see for complete synonymy)

 

Generic Combinations

• Morula (Morula) echinata (Reeve, 1846). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [44, pl. 5, fig. 7]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Madagascar to Hawaiian Islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1969. The Muricidae of Fiji. Part 2. Subfamily Thaidinae. Veliger 11(4): 293-315 [309, pl. 49, fig. 21] (as Morula parva — corrected in 1978)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [69]

Houart, R. 2002. Comments on a group of small Morula s.s. species (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Rapaninae) from the Indo-Pacific with the description of two new species. Novapex 3(4): 97-118 [102, figs 4, 27-31; text fig. B]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [44, pl. 5, fig. 7]

 

Common Name References

Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Ricinula. pls 1-6 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [s 54] (The Prickled-Armed Ricinula)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	01-Nov-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		12-Oct-2011	ADDED
		11-Oct-2011	MODIFIED