Species Nassarius (Niotha) distortus (A. Adams, 1852)

Museums

Buccinum monile Kiener, L.C. 1834. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau Vol. 9. [68, pl. 11, fig. 40] [junior homonym of Buccinum monile Linnaeus, 1771].
Type data:
Status unknown, coast of New Guinea.
Nassa distorta Adams, A. 1852. Catalogue of the species of Nassa, a genus of Gasteropodous Mollusca, belonging to the family Buccinidae, in the Collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq., with the description of some new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 94-112 [105].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 197334, designated as Cebu I, Philippines.
Nassa lachrymosa Reeve, L.A. 1853. Monograph of the genus Nassa. pls 1-25 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 8. [pl. 8, fig. 52].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 197343, designated as Cebu I, Philippines.

Nassarius (Niotha) distortus (A. Adams, 1852). —
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [94, pl. 12, figs 5-8]

Queensland

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Coral sand, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

In clean, muddy and weedy sand in lagoons; to 19 m.

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	15-Aug-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED