Species Pascula ochrostoma (Blainville, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ricinula ochrostoma Blainville, H.M.D. de 1832. Dispostion méthodique des espèces récentes et fossiles des genres Pourpre, Ricinule. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 1: 189-263 [205].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Tonga Island (error)- New Ireland.
• Ricinula cavernosa Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Ricinula. pls 1-6 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [pl.1, figs 38a-b].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Isle of Burias, Philippine Islands.

 

Generic Combinations

• Sistrum cavernosum (Reeve, 1846). —
  Smith, E.A. 1903. Marine Mollusca. (pp. 589-630, pls. XXXV-XXXVI) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : University Press Vol. II(Part II) pp. 589–698, pls. XXXV-XLVIII). [610]
• Drupella ochrostoma (Blainville, 1832). —
  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. [244]
• Cronia ochrostoma (Blainville, 1832). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [90]
• Pascula ochrostoma (Blainville, 1832). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [24, pl. 5, fig. 12]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Kenn Transition (16), Northeast Province (18), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, continental shelf, intertidal, marine, rocks, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 100 m

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1976. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Part 4. With descriptions of new taxa and remarks on Nassarius copperingi (Smith). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 13: 111-129 [122-123, figs 31-36]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [90]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1981. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Part 9. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18: 193-202 [196, figs 8-10]

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. [244]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [24, pl. 5, fig. 12]

 

Common Name References

Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Ricinula. pls 1-6 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [sp. 31] (The Cavernous Ricinula, The Yellow Mouth Ricinula)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	24-Jan-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		29-Sep-2011	MODIFIED