Species Opalia granosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turritella granosa Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1830-1834. Voyages de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécute par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1826-1829 sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tatsu 4 vols 1268 pp., 686 pp., 945 pp., 390 pp. [138, pl. 55, fig. 29-30].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (original label has, "le port du Roi-George, à la Nouvelle-Hollande"), King George Sound, Western Australia.
• Scalaria granulosa 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. 144].
• Scalaria granulata Sowerby, G.B. 1873. Monograph of the genus Scalaria. pls 2-13 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 19. [pl. 5, fig. 35].

 

Generic Combinations

• Opalia (Dentiscala) granosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). —
  Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [138]
• Opalia (Granuliscala) granosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [280, pl. 44, figs 30a-b]
• Opalia granosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). —
  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 [79-80]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Bass Strait, across southern Australia to Fremantle, W.A.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine.

 

General References

Bouchet, P. 2012. Opalia granosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=524068 (Accessed on 2015-09-09)

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 [27, 79-80]

Cotton, B.C. 1956. Family Scalidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 9: 4 pp. [3]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [114]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [63]

Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1900. Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Part IV. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 13(1): 139-156 [143]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [138, fig. 429]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [280, pl. 44, figs 30a-b]

 

Common Name References

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] (Granose Wentletrap)

 

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