Species Pterygia crenulata (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta crenulata 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] [3452].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Marudu Bay, [Sabah, Malaysia], Borneo, "Indonesia".

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164.
• Cylindra coronata Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [236].

  Type data:

   Lectotype.
• Cylindra elongata Hirase, S. 1908. On Japanese marine mollusca. Conchological Magazine 2: 2-403, pls 23-43 [40, 67, figs 234-235].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, Kikai-ga-shima, Amami Island, Japan (Pleistocene); Kikai-ga-shima, Amami Island, Japan (? Pleistocene).
• Cylindromitra fastidiosa Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31 [29 June 1929] [287, pl. 31, fig. 20].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.57813 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Michaelmas Cay, Queensland, Australia [16°36'0'S,145°58'58.8'E].
• Cylindromitra crenulata toleranda Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31 [29 June 1929] [287].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.57812 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Michaelmas Cay, Queensland, Australia [16°36'0'S,145°58'58.8'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pterygia crenulata (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [153]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west and central Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

In weedy sand

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164 [147, pl. 148]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [307]

Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 1-27 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [sp. 190, pl. 24, fig. 190a]

Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 1984. Contribution to the knowledge of Indian marine molluscs. I. Family Mitridae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 61: 1-48 [45]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [153, pl. 33, figs 12a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	31-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED