Species Nassarius (Hima) mobilis (Hedley & May, 1908)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arcularia mobilis Hedley, C. & May, W.L. 1908. Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 108-125, pls 22-25 [121, pl. 23, fig. 16].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.28972 dry, off Cape Pillar, Tasmania, Australia [43°13'1.2"S, 148°4'58.8"E].
• Arcularia mobilis costata Hedley, C. & May, W.L. 1908. Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 108-125, pls 22-25 [121, pl. 23, fig. 17] [as Arcularia mobilis var. costata Hedley & May, 1908; junior homonym of Arcularia costata S.V. Wood, 1848;].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.28973 dry, off Cape Pillar, Tasmania, Australia [43°13'1.2"S, 148°4'58.8"E].
• Nassarius verconis Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1932. South Australian shells. Part 4. South Australian Naturalist 13(3): 92-111 [94, pl. 1, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10186, Beachport, South Australia, 150 fathoms (275 m).
• Reticunassa mobilis plankta Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [322].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60714 dry, off Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia [32°55'58.8"S, 151°56'60"E].
• Reticunassa compacta benthalis Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of south eastern Australia including descriptions of new genus Pillarginella, six new marine species and two subspecies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 25: 177–210, 1 pl. [Date published 1 May 1962] [189, text fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F.20838, off Cape Everard, South Australia, 65 fathoms (119 m).

 

Generic Combinations

• Nassarius (Hima) mobilis (Hedley & May, 1908). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [55]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

37-667 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Nassarius mobilis (Hedley and May, 1908). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Nassariidae/Pages/Nassarius_mobilis.htm (date accessed 15/8/2012)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1981. Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18: 137-192 [178, figs 76-80]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [55]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [79, text fig.]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	16-May-2013	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		16-May-2013	MODIFIED