Species Pedicularia stylasteris Hedley, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pedicularia stylasteris Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [342m fig. 69, 70, pl. 36-38].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.16265 dry, sand and mud to rock, 7-8 ml off Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia [34°25'58.8"S, 151°4'58.8"E].
  Status unknown, Station 44 55-66 fathoms, off Wollongong, and station 48 49-50 fath off Coogee.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral, marine.

General References

Goud, J & Hoeksema, B.W. 2001. Pedicularia vanderlandi spec. nov., a symbiotic snail (Caenogastropoda: Ovulidae) on the hydrocoral Distichopora vervoorti Cairns & Hoeksema, 1998 (Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from Bali, Indonesia. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 334: 77-97 [82]

Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [139] (cited as a possible synonym of P. pacifica)

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. [133, fig. 10b] (Coral-living Bean Cowry)

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