Species Narvaliscala flindersi (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scala (Narvaliscala) flindersi Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. New species of South Australian Gastropoda. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6(2): 199-206 [203, pl. 17, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D13303, W.A., 120 miles west of Eucla, Great Australian Bight, 300 fathoms (549 m).

 

Generic Combinations

• Narvaliscala flindersi (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [375]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

In 550 m

 

General References

Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. 2015. Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa 3907(1): 1-188 [27, 73]

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [1]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [375]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [138]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [280]

WoRMS 2010. Narvaliscala flindersi (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Specie. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=524047 (Accessed on 2015-08-26)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	26-Aug-2015	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED