Subgenus Puncturella (Puncturella) Lowe, 1827

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• Puncturella Lowe R.T. 1827. On Balanus punctatus, Puncturella flemingii, together with some corrections relative to Turbo carenus, and some of the Chiton before described. The Zoological Journal 3(9): 76-80 [77].

  Type species:

   Patella noachina Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Vacerra Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [182, 221] [junior homonym of Vacerra Godman, 1900 [Lepidoptera]; see Vacerrena].

  Type species:

   Puncturella demissa Hedley, 1904 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Red Sea and South Africa to Japan and New Zealand

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1960. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part I. Mollusca 1. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press xxiii + 351 pp. [I229]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [58]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
08-Nov-2011	FISSURELLOIDEA	08-Nov-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Stephanie Baccarella (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Dr Winston Ponder (AM)
24-Aug-2011		24-Aug-2011	MOVED
22-Jan-2015		23-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		17-Aug-2011	MODIFIED