Species Myurella columellaris (Hinds, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebra columellaris Hinds, R.B. 1844. Descriptions of new shells, collected during the voyage of the Sulphur, and in the Mr. Cumings late visit to the Philippines. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 11: pls 41-55 [151].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1968228 43.0 mm, Suva, Fiji.

  Type locality references:

  Bratcher, T. & Cernohorsky, W.O. 1987. Living Terebras of the World. A Monograph of the Recent Terebridae of the World. Melbourne, Florida & Burlington : American Malacologists Inc. 240 pp. [82].
• Terebra propinqua Pease, W.H. 1869. Descriptions of new species of Marine Gastropodae inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 5(2): 64-79, pl. 8 [66].

  Type data:

   Holotype Insl. Hawaii [, Hawaiian Islands].
• Terebra carnicolor Preston, H.B. 1908. Descriptions of new species of land, marine and freshwater shells from the Andaman Islands. Records of the Indian Museum 2(2): 187-210, pls 14-17 [198].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZSI M3997/1, "off Port Blair, Andaman Is., 7-10 fms".

 

Generic Combinations

• Decorihastula columellaris (Hinds, 1844). —
  Oyama, K. 1960. On some new facts of the taxonomy of Terebridae. Venus 21(2): 176-189 [fig. 4,11] (5: Decorihastula; new combination)
• Terebra (Decorihastula) columellaris Hinds, 1844. —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. & Jennings, A. 1966. The Terebridae of Fiji (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Veliger 9(1): 37-66, pls 4-7 [45, pl. 5, fig. 28]
• Myurella columellaris (Hinds, 1844). —
  Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [23]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaii and Polynesia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand bottom marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Between coral patches

 

General References

Bratcher, T. & Cernohorsky, W.O. 1987. Living Terebras of the World. A Monograph of the Recent Terebridae of the World. Melbourne, Florida & Burlington : American Malacologists Inc. 240 pp. [82, pl. 19, figs 66a-b, Color pl. D, fig. 19] (as T. columellaris)

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [395]

Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [23, pl. 25, figs 10-12, pl. 57]

Terryn, Y. 2009. Myurella columellaris. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=438736 (Accessed on 19 Apr 2017)

Terryn, Y. & M. Holford 2008. The Terebridae of Vanuatu with a revision of the genus "Granuliterebra" Oyama, 1961. Visaya supplement 3: 1-118 [38, text fig., pl. 8, figs 4-6]

Wells, F.F., Bryce, C.W., Clark, J.E. & Hansen, G.M. 1990. Christmas Shells. The marine molluscs of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Christmas Island: Australia : Christmas Island Natural History Association 98 pp., pls 1-81.

Willan, R.C. 2005. The molluscan fauna from the emergent reefs of the northernmost Sahul Shelf, Timor Sea - Ashmore, Cartier, Hibernia Reefs; biodiversity and zoogeography. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Supplement 1: 51-81

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [224, pl. 52, fig. 7]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	19-Apr-2017	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED