Species Nassarius horridus (Dunker, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Buccinum muricatum Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 2 pp. 321-686. [450, pl. 32, figs 32-33] [junior homonym; not Buccinum muricatum, Schroeter, 1805].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Carteret harbour, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea).
• Buccinum scabrum Dunker, G. 1846. Diagnoses Buccinorum quorundam novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 3: 170-172 [171] [junior homonym of Buccinum scabrum Anton, 1838].
• Buccinum horridus Dunker, G. 1847. Diagnoses Buccinorum quorundam novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 4: 59-64 [59] [replacement name; for Buccinum scabrum Dunker, 1846].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMHU, none.
• Nassa curta Gould, A.A. 1850. Descriptions of the shells brought home by the U.S. Exploring Expedition (cont.). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 151-156 [153].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM USNM-5722, Samoa Is.

 

Generic Combinations

• Hebra horrida (Dunker, 1847). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [201, pl. 44, figs 1-4]
• Nassarius horrida (Dunker, 1847). —
  Galindo, L.A, Puillandre, N., Utge, J., Lozouet, P. & Bouchet, P. 2016. The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 337-353

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral, coral reef, intertidal, marine, muddy sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 22 m.

 

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 [201, pl. 44, figs 1-4]

Martin, J.C. 2008. Nassariidae. pp. 114-129 in Poppe, G.T. Philippine Marine Mollusks. Volume 2. Gastropoda Part 2. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks Vol. 2 pp. 1-848, pls 1-707. [114, pl. 352, figs 1-3]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [77, pl. 15, figs 3a-c]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	06-Jun-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED