Species Nerita costata Gmelin, 1791

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nerita grossa Born, I. von 1778. Testacea musei Caesarei Vindobonensis quae jussu Mariae Theresia Augustae disposuit et descripsit. Vindobonae : J.P. Krauss 442 pp. [424] [junior homonym; not grossa Linnaeus, 1758 (Wilson 1993)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.
• Nerita costata 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] [3684].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Nerita (Ritena) costata Gmelin, 1791. —
  Limpalaer, L. 2010. Throwing light of the Neretidae. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 129(1): 31-38 [37]
• Nerita scabricosta. —
  Delessert, B. 1841. Recueil de coquilles décrites par Lamarck dans son Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres et non encore figurées. Paris : Fortin 2 pp. + 40 pls with unnumbered plate explanations + 3 pp. [[pl. 32, fig. 6] (Delessert , 1841 (pl. 32, fig. 6) erroneously figured as Nerita scabricosta Lamarck, a specimen of the Indo-Pacific Nerita costata Gmelin, 1791 (see Finet, 2002))

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-west Pacific; AMS C.211083 - New South Wales record

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

Thailand; exposed.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. Marine Shells of the Pacific. Sydney : Pacific Publications Vol. 2 411 pp., 68 pls. [51]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [273]

Finet, Y. 1995. Marine Molluscs of the Galapagos: Gastropods. A monograph and revision of the families Trochidae, Skeneidae, Turbinidae and Neritidae. Italy : L'Informatore Piceno 139 pp. [117]

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [72]

Limpalaer, L. 2010. Throwing light of the Neretidae. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 129(1): 31-38 [37]

Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [107]

Nateewathana, A. 1995. Taxonomic account of commercial and edible molluscs, excluding cephalopods, of Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 15: 93-116 [95]

Schepman, M.M. 1908. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Rhipidoglossa and Docoglossa. With an appendix by Prof. R. Bergh [Pectinobranchiata]. Siboga-Expéditie Report 49a(1): pp. 1-108, 9 pls [7]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [40, pl. 2, fig. 1a-b] (as Nerita costata Gmelin, 1791)

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [73-4] (Ribbed Nerite)

Nateewathana, A. 1995. Taxonomic account of commercial and edible molluscs, excluding cephalopods, of Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 15: 93-116 [95] (Costate Nerite Or Hoi Nam Prik)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jan-2015	NERITOIDEA	09-Jan-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
29-Mar-2012		29-Mar-2012	MOVED
		28-Mar-2012	(import)