Species Plastiscala verconis (Cotton, 1939)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scala (Plastiscala) verconis Cotton, 1939.
• Scala vercornis Cotton, B.C. 1939. Reports of the Expedition of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Mollusca. Part 2: General. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 51(1): 159-176 [172, pl. 7, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D13300, Reevesby Island, South Australia, in shell sand.

Generic Combinations

• Acirsa verconis (Cotton, 1939). —
  Beu, A.G. 2011. Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41(1): 1-153
• Plastiscala vercornis (Cotton, 1939). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [376]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. 2015. Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa 3907(1): 1-188 [158]

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [376]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [140, fig. 434]

WoRMS 2010. Plastiscala verconis. In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=524101 (Accessed on 2015-09-11)

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