Species Persicula pulchella (Kiener, 1830)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Marginella pulchella Kiener, L.C. 1834. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau Vol. 9. [27, pl. 9, fig. 40].
• Marginella fulgurata Hedley, C. 1911. Report on the Mollusca obtained by the F.I.S. 'Endeavour' chiefly off Cape Wiles South Australia. Part 1. Zoological Results of the Fisheries Experiments carried out by F.I.S. "Endeavour" 1: 89-114 [110, pl. 7, fig. 31].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.31944 dry, 40 ml south of Cape Wiles, South Australia, Australia [35°39'0'S,136°49'58.8'E].
• Marginella pulchella minor Bavay, A. 1920. Sables littoraux de Madagascar : Marginelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 65: 163-168 [163] [as Marginella pulchella var. minor Bavay, 1920].
• Marginella newmanae Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [199, pl. 20].

 

Generic Combinations

• Persicula pulchella (Kiener, 1834). —
  Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [32]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Madagascar

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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 Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 197-224 [210]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [390]

Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70 [65]

Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1. [32]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [228]

Schepman, M.M. 1911. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 4: Rhachiglossa. pp. 247-364, pls 18-24 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Monograph 49. [261]

Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd. [22-012]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [143]

 

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. [177, fig. 4] (Flat-topped Margin Shell)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYSTISCIDAE	10-Jan-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED