Species Spirolaxis rotulacatharinea (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
Compiler and date details
2011 - Des Beechey & Winston Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney
- Homalaxis rotulacatharinea Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1903. Descriptions of sixty-eight new gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F.W. Townsend of the Indo-European Telegraph Service 1901–1903. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 12: 289–324, pls 20–23 [299, pl. 21, fig. 3] [as Homalaxis rotula-catharinea Melvill & Standen, 1903].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1903.12.15.84-86, Gulf of Oman, 156 fathoms. [24°58'N., 56°54'E]. - Spirolaxis cohaerentia Laws, C.R. 1944. The molluscan faunule at Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara. No. 3. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 73(4): 297-312, pls 43-45 [308, pl. 44, fig. 22].
- Pseudomalaxis thetidis Garrard, T.A. 1977 [1978]. A revision of Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 31(13): 506-584 [published 31 October 1978, cover date 30 September 1977] [564, figs 1a-b].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.16297 dry, sticky mud and shell, 5.5-7.5 mls north east of Cape Three Points, New South Wales, Australia [33°31'15.6'S, 151°34'51.6'E]. - Pseudomalaxis roddai Ladd, H.S. 1982. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; gastropods (Eulimidae and Volutidae through Terebridae). United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 1171: i-iv, pls 1-20 [31, pl. 32, figs 10-12].
Type data:
Holotype USNM 250149, Station C2026, Viti Levu, Fiji, Pliocene.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Bieler, R. 1993. Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 1-377
Generic Combinations
- Pseudomalaxis rotula catharina [sic]. —
Bandel, K. 1988. Repräsentieren die Euomphaloidea eine natürliche Einheit der Gastropoden? Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 67: 1-33 [9, pl. 2, fig. 5] - Pseudomalaxis (Spirolaxis) rotulacatharinea (Melvill & Standen, 1903). —
Bieler, R. 1984. Die Gattungen der Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: "Heterogastropoda"). Allgemeines und Teil 1: Pseudomalaxis. Arkiv für Molluskenkunde 115(1-3): 105-111, pl. 1 [78, pl. 4, figs 27, 28, 29; pl. 5, fig. 30] - Spirolaxis rotulacatharinea (Melvill & Standen, 1903). —
Bieler, R. 1993. Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 1-377 [322, figs 268-272, 281] - Pseudomalaxis rotulacatherina (Melvill & Standen, 1903). —
Iredale, T. 1911. On some misapplied Molluscan generic names. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9: 253-263 [256] (as Pseudomalaxis rotula-catherina [sic] (Melvill & Standen, 1903))
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Gulf of Oman, Fiji, New Zealand, Vanuatu; Bieler, 1993: distribution map fig. 271, p. 324. 'Indian Ocean and western to central Pacific'.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand.
General References
Bieler, R. 1993. Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 1-377 [322]
Garrard, T.A. 1977 [1978]. A revision of Australian Architectonicidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 31(13): 506-584 [published 31 October 1978, cover date 30 September 1977] [564,566] (synonym Pseudomalaxis (Pseudomaxilis ) thetidis Garrard, 1977 (p.564))
History of changes
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