Species Oxymeris felina (Dillwyn, 1817)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Buccinum tigrinum Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3502] [junior homonym; not Buccinum tigrinum Gmelin, 1791].
• Buccinum felinum Dillwyn, L.W. 1817. A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London : John and Arthur Arch 2 volumes 1092 + 29 pp. [644].
• Terebra suffusa Pease, W.H. 1869. Descriptions of new species of Marine Gastropodae inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 5(2): 64-79, pl. 8 [65].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCZ 248802, "Oahu, Hawaii".

 

Generic Combinations

• Terebra felina (Dillwyn, 1817). —
  Tinker, S. 1952. Pacific Sea Shells. A handbook of common marine mollusks of Hawaii and the south seas. Tokyo : Tuttle 240 pp. [196]
• Subula (Oxymeris) felina (Dillwyn, 1817). —
  Oyama, K. & Takemura, Y. 1961. The Molluscan Shells. Tokyo : Resource Exploitation Institute Vol. 5. [fig. 2]
• Terebra (Oxymeris) felina (Dillwyn, 1817). —
  Shikama, T. 1964. Selected shells of the world illustrated in colours. Tokyo : Hokuryu-Kan Vol. 2 pp. 1-212. [126] (from Shikama 1964.; new combination)
• Acus felinus (Dillwyn, 1817). —
  Terryn, Y. & M. Holford 2008. The Terebridae of Vanuatu with a revision of the genus "Granuliterebra" Oyama, 1961. Visaya supplement 3: 1-118 [17]
• Terebra tigrina (Hinds, 1844). —
  Sowerby, G.B. 1844. Monograph of the genus Terebra Bruguiere. pp. 147-190, pls 41-45 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed.). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [155]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from east Africa to Hawaii. Coral Sea (e.g. C.158505), LHI (e.g. C.354845), Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island records based on specimens in the Australian Museum reference collection

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), 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)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

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. [46]

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]

Terryn, Y. & M. Holford 2008. The Terebridae of Vanuatu with a revision of the genus "Granuliterebra" Oyama, 1961. Visaya supplement 3: 1-118 [17, pl. 2, figs 1-3]

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

Wells, F.F., Bryce, C.W., Clark, J.E. & Hansen, G.M. 1990. Christmas Shells. The marine molluscs of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Christmas Island: Australia : Christmas Island Natural History Association 98 pp., pls 1-81.

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. 12]

 

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
		15-Jul-2016	MODIFIED