Species Obesula albovittata (Hedley, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Triphora albovittata Hedley, C. 1903. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27: 596-619 [Date published 9 April 1903] [609, pl. 32, figs 26, 27].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.13512 dry, Sydney, Middle Harbour, Balmoral, New South Wales, Australia [33°49'40.8"S, 151°15'0"E].
• Notosinister alborda Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Triphoridae. Records of the Australian Museum 23(4): 139-158, text figs 1-30 [149, figs 12, 12a, 12b].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.65848 dry, Sydney north, Collaroy, off Long Reef, New South Wales, Australia [33°45'0"S, 151°19'1.2"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Obesula albovittata (Hedley, 1903). —
  Marshall, B.A. 1983. A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 2: 119 pp., 3 figs, 30 pls [70, figs 29E-G, table 36]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand, shelly bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

64-164 m

 

General References

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 [46]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [113]

Marshall, B.A. 1983. A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 2: 119 pp., 3 figs, 30 pls [70, figs 29E-G; table 36]

Verco, J.C. 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 277-292 [285]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TRIPHOROIDEA	21-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		29-Feb-2012	MODIFIED