Genus Morum Röding, 1798

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Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan in warm and temperate seas

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Northeast Province (18), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Details of nominate subgenus, not present in Australia

Morum Röding, 1798

Morum Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [53] [Museum Boltenianum, 2: 53; Placed on the Official List by Opinion 1040, 1975, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 32(3): 139. Morum purpureum is a replacement name for Strombus oniscus, and Morum is thus a senior objective synonym of Lambidium and Oniscia].

Type species: Morum purpureum Röding, 1798 by monotypy (= Strombus oniscus Linnaeus, 1767).

 

General References

Beu, A.G. 1976. Revision of the Southwest Pacific species of Morum (Oniscidia) (Gastropoda: Cassidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 3-4 3: 223-231 [223]

Hughes, R.N. & Emerson, W.K. 1987. Anatomical and taxonomic characteristics of Harpa and Morum (Neogastropoda: Harpidae). Veliger 4 29: 349-358 [349]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [138]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	HARPIDAE	18-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED