Species Nerita atramentosa Reeve, 1855

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• Nerita atrata 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] [3683] [junior homonym of Nerita saturata Hutton 1884].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.
• Nerita punctata Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 3 366 pp. [185, pl. 55, fig. 41,42].
• Nerita mauritiae Récluz, C.A. 1841. Description de quelques nouvelles espèces de Nérites [part 1]. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne 4(1): 102-109 [106-7].
• Nerita atramentosa Reeve, L.A. 1855. Monograph of the genus Nerita. pls 1-19 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 9. [pl. 6, fig. 25].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Western Australia.
• Nerita saturata Hutton, F.W. 1884. Revision of the recent Rhipidoglossate and Docoglossate Mollusca of New Zealand. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 354-378 [354] [according to Eldredge 1987 new replacement name for Nerita atrata Gmelin 1791].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Nerita (Melanerita) atramentosa Reeve, 1855.
• Nerita (Lisanerita) atramentosa Reeve, 1855. —
  Limpalaer, L. 2010. Throwing light of the Neretidae. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 129(1): 31-38 [37]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Herbivore, intertidal, marine, rock platforms, rock reef, rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

Upper littoral; nestling.

General 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. [74]

Beechey, D. 2004. Nerita atramentosa Reeve, 1855. The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Neritidae/Pages/Nerita_atramentosa.htm (date accessed 6/8/2012)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [82]

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]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [37]

Kabat, A.R. & Finet, Y. 1992. Catalogue of the Neritidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) described by Constant A. Récluz including the location of the type specimens. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 99(2): 223-253 [238]

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

Spencer, H.G., Waters, J.M. & Eichhorst, T.E. 2007. Taxonomy and nomenclature of black nerites (Gastropoda : Neritimorpha : Nerita) from the South Pacific. Invertebrate Systematics 21(3): 229-237 [234]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [40, pl. 2, figs 5a-b] (as Nerita atramentosa Reeve, 1855)

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [275] (Black Crow)

McMichael, D.F. 1960. Shells of the Australian sea-shore. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 127 pp., 287 figs. [Date published December] [62] (Black Nerite/Periwinkle)

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