Genus Pollia Gray, 1834

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• Pollia Gray in Sowerby, 1834 [[in Sowerby] The genera of Recent and fossils shells, Part 42: unnumbered page; again declared new genus by Gray, 1839, The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage... in H.M.S. Blossom: 111. Polliana [Gray, 1850, in M.E. Gray, Figures of molluscous animals, 4: 67] is an incorrect subsequent spelling].

  Type species:

   Buccinum undosum Linnaeus by monotypy.
• Tritonidea Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [74-75, 302].

  Type species:

   Buccinum undosum Linnaues, 1758 by subsequent designation (Herrmannsen, 1849, Indicis generum malacozoorum primordia, 2: 608).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fraussen, K 2014. This work.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

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 Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Vermeij, G.J. & Bouchet, P. 1998. New Pisaniinae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Buccinidae) from New Caledonia, with remarks on Cantharus and related genera. Zoosystema 20(3): 471-485 [471-473]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [90]

 

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	28-Oct-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED