Species Petaloconchus caperatus (Tate & May, 1900)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thylacodes caperatus Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1900. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24(2): 90-103 [Date published after 2 October 1900] [94].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, North Tasmania.

Generic Combinations

• Magilina caperata (Tate & May, 1900). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [49]
• Petaloconchus caperatus (Tate & May, 1900). —
  Beechey, D. 2007. Petaloconchus caperatus (Tate & May, 1900). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Vermetidae/Pages/Petaloconchus_caperatus.htm (date accessed 26/03/2012; new combination)

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, rocky shore, under stones.

General References

Beechey, D. 2007. Petaloconchus caperatus (Tate & May, 1900). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Vermetidae/Pages/Petaloconchus_caperatus.htm (date accessed 26/03/2012)

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 [28]

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1931. South Australian shells. South Australian Naturalist 12(4): 51-63 [63]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [49]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [103]

May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [63]

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

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