Genus Onustus Swainson, 1840

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Regional Maps

• Onustus Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [352] [not available from Humphrey, 1797 (published in a work placed on the Official Index by Opinion 51 and Direction 32)].

  Type species:

   Trochus indicus Gmelin, 1791 by subsequent designation.
• Tugurium Fischer, P. 1879. Genres Calcar, Trochus, Xenophora, Tectarius et Risella. pp. 337-463, 120 pls in Keiner, L.C. (ed.). Spécies general et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 3. [450].

  Type species:

   Trochus indicus Gmelin, 1791 by subsequent designation (Cossmann, 1916, Essais de paléoconchologie comparée, 10: 187).
• Trochotugurium Sacco, F. 1896. I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte 20 (Caecidae, Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, Phoridae, Calytraeidae, Capulidae, Hipponycidae, Neritidae, Neritopsidae). Torino : Clausen 65 pp., 5 pls. [27].

  Type species:

   Tugurium (Trochotugurium) borsoni Sismonda, 1847 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Kreipl, K. & Alf, A. 1999. Recent Xenophoridae. Hackenheim : ConchBooks 148 pp. [70]

Ponder, W.F. 1983. A revision of the Recent Xenophoridae of the world and of the Australian fossil species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Memoirs of the Australian Museum 17: 1-126 [58]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [169]

 

History of changes

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