Species Pisania (Pisania) ignea (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Buccinum igneum Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [pl. 3494].
• Buccinum flammulatum Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 2 pp. 321-686. [426, pl. 30, figs 29-31].
• Buccinum pictum Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Buccinum. pls 1-12 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [pl. 10, fig. 74].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pisania (Ecmanis) ignea (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1971. Indo-Pacific Pisaniinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and related buccinid genera. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 8: 137-167, figs 1-95 [146]
• Pisania (Pisania) ignea (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [96, pl. 10, figs 21a-b]
• Pisania ignea (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Fraussen, K. 2008. Buccinidae. pp. 36-58 in Poppe, G.T. Philippine Marine Mollusks. Volume 2. Gastropoda Part 2. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks Vol. 2 pp. 1-848, pls 1-707. [54, pl. 322, fig. 10]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, tide pools, veliger planktonic.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1971. Indo-Pacific Pisaniinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and related buccinid genera. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 8: 137-167, figs 1-95 [146-147]

Fraussen, K. 2008. Buccinidae. pp. 36-58 in Poppe, G.T. Philippine Marine Mollusks. Volume 2. Gastropoda Part 2. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks Vol. 2 pp. 1-848, pls 1-707. [54, pl. 322, fig. 10]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [264]

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [167]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [96, pl. 10, figs 21a-b]

 

Common Name References

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [144, pl. 145] (Flame Pisania)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	BUCCINOIDEA	06-Sep-2022	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	14-Aug-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED