Species Nassaria (Microfusus) problematica (Iredale, 1936)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Benthindsia problematica Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [318, pl. 23, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60665 dry, off Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°49'58.8"S, 151°43'30"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Nassaria (Microfusus) problematica (Iredale, 1936). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [64]

 

Introduction

Studies from 2006 and 2010 discuss this species from Norfolk seamounts, but some confusion exist about their identification and hence the location is excluded herein.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1981. The family Buccinidae. Part 1. The genera Nassaria, Trajan and Neoteron. Monographs of the Mollusca 2: 1-52 [31-32]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [64, pl. 9, figs 14a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED