Species Primovula uvula Cate, 1978

Museums

Regional Maps

• Primovula (Primovula) uvula Cate, C.N. 1978. New species of Ovulidae and reinstatement of Margovula pyrulina (A. Adams, 1854) (Gastropoda). Nautilus 92(4): 160-167 [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype LACM 1790, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia [27°12'S, 152°12'E].

 

Introduction

It is unclear as to whether this taxon is based on a form of P. howlandae or if it is a separate species (Lorenz & Fehse, 2009)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [80]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	05-Mar-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		24-Jan-2012	MODIFIED