Species Oxymeris dimidiata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Buccinum dimidatum Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [742].
• Terebra carnea Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls. [pl.16, fig.1].
• Acus dimidiata Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1853. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts I-VIII) pp. 1-256, pls 1-32. [224].
• Terebra splendens Deshayes, G.P. 1857. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles du genre Terebra. Journal de Conchyliologie 6: 65-102, pls 3-5 [73].

  Type data:

   Lectotype.

 

Generic Combinations

• Terebra (Subula) dimidiata (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1895. Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, from by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Journal of Conchology 8: 89–132 [90]
• Acus dimidiata (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [6]
• Subula dimidiata (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Oyama, K. 1960. On some new facts of the taxonomy of Terebridae. Venus 21(2): 176-189 [177]
• Terebra dimidiata (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [225, pl. 51, fig. 14]
• Terebra (Subula) dimidiata pallida (Dautzenberg, 1935) [as Terebra (Subula) dimidiata var. pallida]. —
  Dautzenberg, P. 1935. Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 2(17): 1-208 [23] (non Deshayes, 1857. Refers to Chemnitz, Vol.11, fig. 1817, 1818)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Polynesia and Hawaii

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand bottom marine, shallow water.

 

General References

Bratcher, T. & Cernohorsky, W.O. 1987. Living Terebras of the World. A Monograph of the Recent Terebridae of the World. Melbourne, Florida & Burlington : American Malacologists Inc. 240 pp. [40]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [397]

Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [6, pls 2, 49]

Wells, F.E. 1994. Marine Molluscs of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin (No. 410): 1-22

Willan, R.C. 2005. The molluscan fauna from the emergent reefs of the northernmost Sahul Shelf, Timor Sea - Ashmore, Cartier, Hibernia Reefs; biodiversity and zoogeography. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Supplement 1: 51-81

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [225, pl. 51, fig. 14]

 

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. [194, pl. 25, fig. 2] (Divided Auger)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [238, fig. 663] (Orange-lined Auger)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [168, pl. 169] (Dimidiate Auger)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	14-Mar-2013	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		14-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
		07-Jul-2016	MODIFIED