Species Nassarius (Zeuxis) bicallosus (Smith, 1876)

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• Nassa bicallosus Smith, E.A. 1876. A list of marine shells, chiefly from the Solomon Islands, with descriptions of several new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 12: 535–562, pl. 30 [543, pl. 30, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1876.1.10.29 (The type locality of this species is unclear. In the original description Smith (1876) gave "Hab: West Australia (Brazier); Swan River, Cape Natal". Cernohorsky (1984, p. 139) says the locality on the syntype labels is"Cape Natal". H.H. Kool (2013, in litt. says the species is restricted to Australia and that the type locality is Swan River, West Australia).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [139].
• Nassa glabella Marrat, F.P. 1877. On some proposed new forms in the genus Nassa. London : Meek pp. 15, 1 pl. [3, pl. 1, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Lectotype LFM, none.
• Nassa laevigata Marrat, F.P. 1877. On some proposed new forms in the genus Nassa. London : Meek pp. 15, 1 pl. [3] [junior homonym of Nassa laevigata Pusch, 1837].

  Type data:

   Holotype LFM, none.

Generic Combinations

• Nassarius (Zeuxis) bicallosus (Smith, 1876). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [138, pl. 26, figs 8-11]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, mud-silt, sand.

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [138, pl. 26, figs 8-11]

Morton, B. 2011. Behaviour of Nassarius bicallosus (Caenogastropoda) on a northwestern Western Australian surf beach with a review of feeding in the Nassariidae. Molluscan Research 31(2): 90-94

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [86, pl. 14, figs 16a-c]

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