Species Pellasimnia mcoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Birostra mcoyi Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. On some new marine Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 14: 55-65 [56].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F448, Waterhouse, NE Tasmania.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ovula (Birostra) McCoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878). —
  Tryon, G.W. 1885. Manual of Conchology - Structural and Systematic: With Illustrations of the Species. 1 Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 7 308, 63 pl. [256]
• Dissona mccoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878) [change combination]. —
  Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [84]
• Pellasimnia mcoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878). —
  Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [116]
• Birostra mcoyi (Tenison-Woods, 1878). —
  Paetel 1887. Catalog der Conchylien-Sammlung. I. Die Cephalopoden, Pteropoden und Meeres-Gastropoden. Berlin, Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel. Berlin : Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel pp. 1-16, 1-639. [327]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

South Australian coast to 40 miles west of Eucla, W. Australia. (Cate, 1973)

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Lives on Melithaea octocorals.

 

General References

Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [84, fig 188: holotype]

Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [116, pls 156, A245]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	16-Aug-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	07-Mar-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		05-Mar-2012	MOVED
		13-Nov-2013	MODIFIED