Species Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) clava (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex clava 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] [3565].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Con Son Islands, Vietnam.
• Cerithium marmoratum Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 3 366 pp. [109].
• Cerithium magnum Jay, J.C. 1836. A catalogue of the recent shells arranged according to the Lamarckian system, together with descriptions of new and rare species contained in the collection of John C. Jay. New York : Wiley & Putnam. [pl. 2, fig. 1, 83].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 56067.
• Pirenella boswellae Barnard, K.H. 1963. Contributions to the knowledge of South African Marine Mollusca. Part IV. Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata: Rhipidoglossa, Docoglossa, Tectibranchiata, Polyplacophora, Solenogastres, Scaphopoda. Annals of the South African Museum 47(2): 201-360, 30 figs [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype 11370, from fish stomach off Durban.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pseudovertagus clava (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [122, pl. 16, fig. 14]
• Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) clava (Gmelin, 1791). —
  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 [106]
• Cerithium clava (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [479]
• Cerithium (Pseudovergatus) clava (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Salvat, B. 1967. Cerithium (Pseudovertagus) clava (Gmelin, 1791) (= Clava maculata Martyn,1784). Taxonomie et distribution geographique. Journal de Conchyliologie 106(4): 130-137 [130]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Clava maculata Martyn, 1786. —
  Martyn, T. 1784. The universal conchologist : exhibiting the figure of every known shell accurately drawn and painted after nature, with a new systematic arrangement / by the author, Thomas Martyn = Le conchologiste universel, montrant la figure de chaque coquille aujourd'hui connue soigneusement dessinee, et peinte d'apres nature, le tout arrange selon le systeme de l'auteur. London : Thomas Martyn 4 vols. 39 pp. 160 pls. [fig. 57]
• Murex clava Simsonis Chemnitz, 1788. —
  Chemnitz, J.H. 1788. Neues systematisches Conchylien - Cabinet. Nürnberg : G.N. Raspe Vol. 10 pp. 1-376, pls 137-173, figs 1271-1692. [256]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from east Africa to French Polynesia. Houbrick (1978) says Indian Ocean records need to be confirmed. AMS has one specimen from Margaret River, WA (AMS C.086842). Also Coral Sea (AMS C.324564)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand, subtidal.

 

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 [106-109, pl. 5, figs 6-7; pls 80-82]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [122, pl. 16; fig. 14]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIIDAE	18-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		27-Sep-2011	MODIFIED