Species Terebralia palustris (Linnaeus, 1767)
Giant Mud Creeper, Northern Mud Creeper
Type data:
Lectotype ZMUC, Lohaia, Red Sea.- Strombus agnatus 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] [3521].
- Cerithium palustre Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [486].
Type data:
Lectotype East Indies. - Clava caledonica Jousseaume, F.P. 1884. Description de mollusques nouveaux. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 9: 169–192 [191, pl. 4, fig. 12].
Type data:
Syntype(s) New Caledonia.
Generic Combinations
- Cerithium (Potamides) palustre (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Sowerby, G.B. (ed.) 1854. Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2 pp. 439-899. [884, pl. 185, fig. 261] - Potamides (Terebralia) palustris (Bruguiere, 1792). —
Fischer, P. 1884. Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie Conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivant et fossiles. Paris : F. Savy Vol. 7 pp. 609-688. [581, fig. 447] - Potamides (Pyrazus) palustris (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Martens, E.C. von 1880. Mollusken. pp. 181-346 in Mobius, K. (ed.). Beitrage zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen. Berlin : Otto Enslin 352 pp. [281] - Pyrazus palustris (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(IX-XV) pp. 257-484, pls 33-60. [291, pl. 30, figs 8,8a,8b] - Terebralia palustris (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Cox, L.R. 1927. Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Zanzibar Protectorate. Report on the palaeontology of the Zanzibar Protectorate. pp. 13-102, pls 3-9 [84, pl. 18, fig. 4]
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [134, pl. 15; fig. 18] - Potamides (Tympanotonus) palustris (Linnaeus, 1758). —
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. [160, pl. 32, figs 41,42]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific, from East Africa to Philippines
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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Brackish water, intertidal flats, mangroves, marine, mud bottom, mud-silt.
General References
Houbrick, R.S. 1991. Systematic review and functional morphology of the mangrove snails Terebralia and Telescopium (Potamididae; Prosobranchia). Malacologia 33(1): 289-338 [305]
Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls [81-2]
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [134, pl. 15; fig. 18]
Common Name 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. [87, pl. 17, fig. 30] (Northern Mud Creeper)
Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [102] (Giant Mud Creeper)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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01-Jun-2021 | POTAMIDIDAE | 19-Feb-2015 | MODIFIED | Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
25-Nov-2013 | MODIFIED |