Species Pirenella delicatula Reid, 2016

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• Pirenella delicatula Reid, D.G. & Ozawa, T. 2016. The genus Pirenella Gray, 1847 (= Cerithideopsilla Thiele, 1929) (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region and Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa 4076(1): 1-91 [Date published 5 Feb] [62-63, figs 3K, 21].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.269837, Lookout Hill, Broome, Western Australia.
  Paratype(s) NHMUK 20141065, Lookout Hill, Broome, Western Australia.
• Pirenella layardi Brazier, J. 1877. Shells collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(4): 311-321 [321].
• Potamides (Pirenella) layardi Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls. [165] [In part, not Cerithidea layardii A. Adams 1855].
• Pyrazus layardi Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [357] [doubtful synonym, not Cerithidea layardii A. Adams, 1855].
• Pyrazus cingulatus Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 [190] [doubtful synonym, probably includes P. rugosa; not Gmelin, 1791).].
• Cerithideopsilla cingulata ?.

  Secondary source:

   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. [88] (in part, probably includes P. rugosa, P. austrocingulata); Reid, D.G., Dyal, P., Lozouet, P., Glaubrecht, M. & Williams, S.T. 2008. Mudwhelks and mangroves: The evolutionary history of an ecological association (Gastropoda: Potamididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 680-699 (in part, includes P. cingulata, P. arabica, P. asiatica, P. austrocingulata); Willan, R.C. 2013. A key to the potamidid snails (longbums, mudcreepers and treecreepers) of northern Australia. Northern Territory Naturalist 24: 68-80 [78, fig. 11] (in part, probably includes P. rugosa, P. austrocingulata).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Reid, D.G. & Ozawa, T. 2016. The genus Pirenella Gray, 1847 (= Cerithideopsilla Thiele, 1929) (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region and Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa 4076(1): 1-91 [Date published 5 Feb] [62]

 

Introduction

Allan (1950) used the name Cerithideopsilla cingulata for unspecified members of the P. cingulata group in Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Silty and sandy mud flats, adjacent to mangroves

 

General 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. [88]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CERITHIOIDEA	23-Oct-2018	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri