Species Opalia bicarinata (Sowerby, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scalaria bicarinata Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1844. Monograph of the genus Scalaria. 83-108, pl. 32-35 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [104, pl. 35, fig. 113-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1981042, Dumaguete, Isl. Negroes, Philippines, 13 m (7 fathoms), in coarse black sand.
• Cirsotrema attenuata Pease, W.H. 1861. Descriptions of seventeen new species of marine shells from the Sandwich Islands, in the collection of Hugh Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 397-400 [400].
• Nodiscala fusoides Jousseaume, F. 1912. Faune malacologique de la Mer Rouge. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 24((3-4)): 180-246, pls 5-7.

 

Generic Combinations

• Opalia (Nodiscala) bicarinata (Sowerby, 1844). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [106]
• Opalia bicarinata (Sowerby, 1844). —
  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 [44-45]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific: Hawaii to eastern Transkei, South Africa

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to 99 m. Also found in deep water

 

General References

Garcia, E.F. 2004. New records of Opalia-like molluscks (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with the description of fourteen new species. Novapex 5(1): 1-18 [8]

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [48]

Hedley, C. 1907. The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland, part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 476–513, pls 16–21 [482]

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 [117]

Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1897. Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs Hadfield, with list of species. Part 3. Journal of Conchology 8: 396–421 [412]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [106, fig. 339]

WoRMS 2010. Opalia bicarinata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1844). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=524055 (Accessed on 2015-09-09)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	28-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED