Species Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex aluco Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [755, no.497].

  Type data:

   Lectotype.
• Murex coronatus Born, I. von 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, pl. 1, Testacea. - Verzeichniss etc. Illust. Vindobonae. Vienna : J.P. Krauss xlii 458 pp. [pl. 322].
• Cerithium aluco Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [476].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MHNG 1097/7-3.
• Cerithium cumingii Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186. [850, pl. 126, fig. 19] [ex A. Adams ms].

 

Generic Combinations

• Vergatus aluco (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. [285]
• Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Houbrick, R.S. 1978. The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 1: 1-130 [101-105]
• Cerithium aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [476]
• Cerithium (Vertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Kobelt, W. 1898. Die Gattung Cerithium Lam. 201-297, pls 37-47 in Küster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1. [16,17]
• Cerithium (Aluco) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Thiele, J. 1931. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 2 pp. 377-778. [213]
• Rhinoclavis aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Hirase, S. & Taki, I. 1951. A handbook of illustrated shells in natural colors from the Japanese Islands and adjacent territories. Tokyo : Bunkyokaku xxiv, 134 pp. [pl. 83, fig. 7]
• Cerithium (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 9: 195-204 [200, fig. 11]
• Cerithium (Aluco) cumingi (A. Adams, 1855) [sic]. —
  Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [32, pl. 12, fig. 2,2a]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Clava hercula Humphrey, 1797. —
  Humphrey, G. 1797. Museum Calonnianum : specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history collected by M. de Calonne in France and lately his property : consisting of an assemblage of the most beautiful and rare subjects in entomology, conchology, ornithology, mineralogy, &c. London : E. Bibl. Radcl. viii, 84 pp. [32]
• Clava eruca Humphrey, 1797. —
  Humphrey, G. 1797. Museum Calonnianum : specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history collected by M. de Calonne in France and lately his property : consisting of an assemblage of the most beautiful and rare subjects in entomology, conchology, ornithology, mineralogy, &c. London : E. Bibl. Radcl. viii, 84 pp. [32]
• Strombus coronatus Röding, 1798. —
  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] [98]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific, from Indonesia to Samoan Islands

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, mud-silt, on macrophytes, rubble, sand, seagrass, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

In coral rubble.

 

General References

Houbrick, R.S. 1978. The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 1: 1-130 [101-105, pl. 5, figs 1-3; pls 76-79]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [122, pl. 16; fig. 13 a-b]

 

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. (Cuming's Creeper)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [108, pl. 318] (Wandering Cerith)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [100, pl. 101B] (Aluco Creeper)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIOIDEA	06-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIIDAE	19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		22-Nov-2013	MODIFIED