Genus Murchisonella Mörch, 1875

Museums

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• Murchisonella Mörch, O.A.L. 1875. Synopsis Molluscorum Marinorum Indiarum occidentalium. Malakozoologische Blätter 22: 142-184 [184].

  Type species:

   Murchisonia spectrum Mörch, 1875 by monotypy.
• Pandorella Laseron, C. 1951. The New South Wales Pyramidellidae and the genus Mathilda. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 298-334, figs 1-98 [316] [junior homonym; not Pandorella Conrad, 1862].

  Type species:

   Pandorella declivita Laseron, 1951 (as genotype) by original designation.
• Laseronella Whitley, G.P. 1959. Two new generic names. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1957-1958: 56-60 [60] [replacement name; for Pandorella Laseron, 1951].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Peñas, A. and Rolán, E. 2013. Revision of the genera Murchisonella and Pseudoaclisina (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Murchisonellidae. Vita Malacologica 11: 15-64

History of changes