Genus Pellasimnia Schilder, 1939

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pellasimnia Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [222] [Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 71(5-6): 195; not available (no diagnosis) from Iredale, 1931, Records of the Australian Museum, 18(4): 222, 233, nor from Schilder, 1936, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 22(2): 82, who however both designated Ovulum angasi as type species. Schilder (1939) diagnosed Pellasimnia, which he attributed to Iredale, 1931, but did not cite the type species].

  Type species:

   Ovulum angasi Reeve, 1865 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [115]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CYPRAEOIDEA	06-Mar-2012	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)