Species Opalia australis (Lamarck, 1822)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scalaria australe Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Suite des Gastéropodes. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(2) 232 pp. [Date published Apr. 1822] [228].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 5 shells in Lamarckian collection, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. 2015. Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa 3907(1): 1-188 [42].

 

Generic Combinations

• Opalia australis (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. 2015. Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa 3907(1): 1-188 [42]
• Opalia (Opalia) australis (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [280, pl. 44, figs 29a-b]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocky shore, under rocks.

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2008. Opalia australis (Lamarck, 1822). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Epitoniidae/Pages/Opalia_australis%20.htm (date accessed 8/3/2012)

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 [52]

Nakayama, T. 2003. A review of northwest Pacific Epitoniids (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Monographs of marine mollusca No. 6. Leiden, The Netherlands : Backhuys Publishers pp. 1-143. [81]

Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [61]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [138, fig. 430]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [280, pl. 44, figs 29a-b]

 

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. [104, fig. 6] (Australian Ladder Shell)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [132, pl. 133] (Austral Wentletrap)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	23-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED