Species Neocancilla clathrus (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta clathrus Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Arm (sic.) Is. [= Aru Islands], Moluccas, Indonesia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164.
• Voluta maculosa Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae].
• Mitra crenifera Lamarck, J.P.B.A de M. 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de mollusques testacés, Mitre (Mitra). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 17: 54-80, 195-222 [204].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG 1102/52/1, Indian Ocean.
• Voluta mustelina 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. [541].
• Mitra (Cancilla) tathnae Jickeli, C.F. 1874. Studien über die Conchylien des Rothen Meeres. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 1: 17-54 [25, pl. 2, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, Massawa, Red Sea, 4 fms (7 m); Massawa, [Eritrea], Red Sea, 4 fms.
• Mitra eburnostoma Garrett, A. 1880. Catalogue of the Polynesian Mitridae, with remarks on their geographical range, station and descriptions of supposed new species. Journal of Conchology 3: 1-73 [15].

  Type data:

   Holotype 3072, Tuamotu Archipelago.
• Mitra emersoni Pilsbry, H.A. 1921. Marine Mollusks of Hawaii VIII-XIII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 72: 296-328 [316, pl. 12, fig. 19].

  Type data:

   Holotype 46804, off Honolulu, [Oahu], Hawaii.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neocancilla clathrus (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [157]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west and Central Pacific; recorded in Australia from Lady Musgrave Island and the Coral Sea Coral Sea region 18 (AMS C.326140)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Among weed

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164 [105, pl. 101]

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. [311]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [157, pl. 34, figs 19a-b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [274, pl. 751] (Barred Mitre)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	31-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED