Species Nebularia contracta (Swainson, 1820)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra contracta Swainson, W. 1820. Zoological Illustrations, or original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their natural affinities. Vol. 1. London : Baldwin & Craddock 1st Series pls 1–18. [issued 1820, dated 1820–1823] [pl. 18, top and bottom figures].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ex Humphreys collection, Anaa Island, Tuamotu Islands.

  Type locality references:

  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [394].
• Mitra nebulosa Broderip, W.J. 1836. Characters of new genera and species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1835: 192-197 [193].

  Type data:

   Holotype 1967820, Anaa Island, Tuamotus.
• Mitra infecta Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 1-27 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 11, fig. 75].

  Type data:

   Holotype 1967820, Anaa Island, Tuamotus.
• Voluta abbatis Dillwyn, L.W. 1817. A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London : John and Arthur Arch 2 volumes 1092 + 29 pp. [557] [non Mitra abbatis Perry, 1811].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMUC, "East Indian seas".
• Mitra barclayi Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1874. Mongraph of the genus Mitra. 1-46, pls 352-379 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 4. [17, pl. 14, fig. 225, pl. 27, fig. 612].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1900.3.19.41, Flacq, Mauritius and Anaa, Pacific.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East Africa, Hawaiian Islands (Sandwich Islands), Central and East Indian Ocean, Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, Oceania, Philippines; East Africa to Polynesia and the Hawaiian Islands (Cernohorsky 1976), Indo-West Pacific; Queensland south to Swain Reefs (Wilson 1994); also Coral Sea IMCRA region 18 (AMS C.326073)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The Mitridae of the World. Part I. The Subfamily Mitrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17): 273-528 [393, pl. 330a]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Part 6. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 15: 67-86 [80]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [97]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [299]

Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 1984. Contribution to the knowledge of Indian marine molluscs. I. Family Mitridae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 61: 1-48 [14]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [148]

 

Common Name References

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [G3199] (species number: G3199) (Inu-fude, Kitsune-fude)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	NEOGASTROPODA	25-Sep-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	27-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED