Species Neverita didyma (Röding, 1798)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Albula didyma Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [20].
• Neverita bicolor Philippi, R.A. 1849. Centuria tertia testaceorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 5(10): 151-160 [156, sp. 17].
• Natica lamarckiana Reeve, L.A. 1855. Monograph of the genus Natica. pls 1-30 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 9.
• Natica petiveriana Reeve, L.A. 1855. Monograph of the genus Natica. pls 1-30 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 9. [pl. 5, fig. 17].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1991090, Catbalonga, Samar Island, Philippines.

 

Generic Combinations

• Polinices (Glossaulax) didyma (Röding, 1798). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [221, pl. 36, fig. 40]
• Neverita didyma (Röding, 1798).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, 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), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, mud-silt, sand flats.

Extra Ecological Information

To 100 m; in bays

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Glossaulax didyma (Roding 1798). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Naticidae/Pages/Glossaulax_didyma.htm (date accessed 24/7/2012)

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [144]

Kilburn, R.N. 1976. A revision of the Naticidae of Southern Africa and Moçambique (Mollusca). Annals of the Natal Museum 22(3): 829-884 [860]

Nateewathana, A. 1995. Taxonomic account of commercial and edible molluscs, excluding cephalopods, of Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 15: 93-116 [99]

Streitz, M. 1992. Moon Shells of Thailand. Part 2. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 60: 12-25 [14]

Subba Rao, N.V. 2003. Indian Seashells (Part 1). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper (192): 1-416 [189]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [221, pl. 36, fig. 40]

 

Common Name References

Nateewathana, A. 1995. Taxonomic account of commercial and edible molluscs, excluding cephalopods, of Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 15: 93-116 [99] (Bladder Moon Snail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
19-Sep-2022	CAENOGASTROPODA	19-Sep-2022	MOVED	Dr Bryan Lessard
01-Jun-2021	NATICIDAE	23-Jul-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		17-Feb-2012	MODIFIED