Species Pyramidella acus (Gmelin, 1791)
Compiler and date details
2011 - Des Beechey & Winston Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney, & S. Hori (Technical Advisor, Japan)
- Voluta acus 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] [3451].
- Voluta guttata Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38].
- Pyramidella musculosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. pp. 1-16 in Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Paris : Agasse Part 23 pp. 1-16, pls 391-488. [11, pl. 452, figs. 1a, 1b].
- Pyramidella maculosa Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Suite des Gastéropodes. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(2) 232 pp. [Date published Apr. 1822] [223].
Generic Combinations
- Pyramidella acus (Gmelin, 1791). —
Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [359] - Pyramidella (Longchaeus) acus (Gmelin, 1791). —
Tryon, G.W. 1886. Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species. Series 2 Philadelphia : Published by the author Vol. 8 pp. 461, pls 79. [301, pl. 72, figs. 76-78] - Voluspa maculosa (Lamarck, 1816) [Generic combination of synonym]. —
Laseron, C. 1959. The family Pyramidellidae (Mollusca) from northern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10: 177-267, figs 1-213 [191, fig. 20]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-West Pacific
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Other Regions
Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Coral, sand.
General References
Adams, A. 1853. Family Pyramidellidae. pp. 228-235 in Adams, H. & Adams, A. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts I-VIII) pp. 1-256, pls 1-32. [230] (as Obeliscus punctatus)
Adams, A. 1854. Monographs of the genera Eulima, Niso, Leiostraca, Obeliscus, Pyramidella and Monoptygma. pp. 793-825 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed.). Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2 pp. 439-899. [806, pl. 171, figs. 14, 27] (as Obeliscus punctatus)
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. [105] (as Pyramidella maculosa)
Brodie G.D & Brodie J.E 1990. A checklist of the opistobranch molluscs of Fiji. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 11: 53-63 [56]
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. Marine Shells of the Pacific. Sydney : Pacific Publications Vol. 2 411 pp., 68 pls. [199, pl. 57, fig. 1] (as Pyramidella acus)
Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [227]
Hedley, C. 1909. Mollusca from the Hope Islands, north Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34(1): 420–466, pls 36–44 [443] (as Pyramidella acus)
Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [359] (as Pyramidella acus)
Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [355] (as Longchaeus acus)
Laseron, C. 1959. The family Pyramidellidae (Mollusca) from northern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10: 177-267, figs 1-213 [191, fig. 20] (as Voluspa maculosa)
Reeve, L.A. 1865. Monograph of the genus Pyramidella. pls 1-6 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 15. [pl. 1, fig. 5] (As Pyramidella punctata)
Saurin, E. 1959. Pyramidellidae de Nha-Trang (Viet-Nam). Annales de la Faculté des Sciences, Saigon (1959): 223-283, pls 1-9 [225] (As Longchaeus punctatus)
Short, J.W. & Potter, D.G. 1987. Shells of Queensland and The Great Barrier Reef. Drummoyne, NSW : Golden press Pty Ltd 135 pp., 60 pl. [112, pl. 55, fig. 11] (As Pyramidella acus)
Tantanasiriwong, R. 1978. An illustrated checklist of marine shelled gastropods from Phuket Island, adjacent mainland and offshore islands, Western Peninsula, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 21: 1-22, 259 figs [19]
Tryon, G.W. 1886. Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species. Series 2 Philadelphia : Published by the author Vol. 8 pp. 461, pls 79. [301, pl. 72, figs. 76-78] (As Pyramidella (Longchaeus) acus)
Wells, F.E. 1994. Marine Molluscs of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin (No. 410): 1-22 [16] (As Pyramidella acus)
Willan, R.C. 2005. The molluscan fauna from the emergent reefs of the northernmost Sahul Shelf, Timor Sea - Ashmore, Cartier, Hibernia Reefs; biodiversity and zoogeography. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Supplement 1: 51-81 [73] (As Pyramidella acus)
History of changes
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| 03-Oct-2018 | 08-May-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 03-Oct-2018 | 07-Jan-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 03-Oct-2018 | 11-Aug-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 11-Aug-2010 | MODIFIED |