Species Morum (Herculea) ponderosum (Hanley, 1858)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oniscia ponderosa Hanley, S. 1858. Description of new Oniscia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 26: 255-256 [255].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1966724, Amami-Oshima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan.

 

Generic Combinations

• Morum (Herculea) ponderosum (Hanley, 1858). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [139, pl. 30, figs 2a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific. Additional record from Coral Sea (AMS C.325857)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 10 m

 

General References

Dance, S.P. & Emerson, W.K. 1967. Notes on Morum dennisoni (Reeve) and related species. Veliger 2 10: 91-98 [94]

Emerson, W.K. 1981. Two new Indo-Pacific species of Morum (Gastropoda: Tonnacea). Nautilus 3 95: 101-105 [101]

Emerson, W.K. 1990. New records for Western Pacific Morum (Gastropoda: Harpidae) with biogeographic implications. Veliger 2 33: 145-154 [152]

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [272]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [139]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	HARPIDAE	20-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED