Species Ovaginella ovulum (Sowerby, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Marginella ovulum Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1846. Monograph of the genus Marginella. pp. 373-406, pls 74-78 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [401, pl. 78, fig. 188].
• Marginella cypraeoides Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1877: 121-123 [Date published 14 June 1879] [122].
• Marginella petterdi Beddome, C.E. 1883. Description of some new marine shells of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1882: 167-170 [Date published 1883] [167].

 

Generic Combinations

• Ovaginella ovulum (Sowerby, 1846). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

3-201 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2003. Ovaginella ovulum (Sowerby, 1846). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Marginellidae/Pages/Ovaginella_ovulum.htm (date accessed 19/01/2012)

Cossignani, T. 2006. Marginellidae and Cystiscidae of the world. L'Informatore Piceno pp. 1-408. [362]

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [208]

Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [44]

Laseron, C. 1948. New South Wales Marginellidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22(1): 35-48, pls 5-6 [35]

Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274-311, figs 1-84 [291]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [228]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-011]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [142]

 

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. [176, fig. 2] (Ovulum Margin Shell)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MARGINELLIDAE	19-Jan-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		16-Nov-2011	MODIFIED