Genus Petaloconchus Lea, 1843

Museums

Regional Maps

• Petaloconchus Lea, H.C. 1843. Descriptions of Some New Fossil Shells, from the Tertiary of Petersburg, Virginia. Philadelphia : H.C. Lea 12 pp. [2].
• Macrophragma Carpenter, P.P. 1857. Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum collected by Frederik Reigen. London : British Museum pp. i-xii, 1-552. [308] [not available: established in synonymy].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), 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)

General References

Bieler, R. & Petit, R.E. 2011. Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa 2948: 1-103 [16]

Keen, A.M. 1961. A proposed reclassification of the gastropod family Vermetidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 7: 183-214 [196]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [171]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	VERMETOIDEA	17-Dec-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		03-Feb-2012	MODIFIED