Species Pepta simplex (Laseron, 1955)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pallidonia simplex Laseron, C. 1955. The New South Wales Cancellariidae. Records of the Australian Museum 23(5): 267-272, text figs 1-13a [272, figs 13, 13a].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.103626 dry, off Point Halliday, New South Wales, Australia [32°4'30'S,152°33'0'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [292]

Generic Combinations

• Pepta simplex (Laseron, 1955). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [177]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

14-55 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2005. Pepta simplex (Laseron, 1955). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cancellariidae/Pages/Pepta_simplex.htm (date accessed 12/01/2012)

Garrard, T.A. 1975. A revision of Australian Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 30: 1-62 [42]

Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [292]

Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. 2005. Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) — 2nd edition. Zootaxa 1102: 1-161 [95]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [177]

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