Species Pyramidella teres (A. Adams, 1854)
Compiler and date details
2011 - Des Beechey & Winston Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney, & S. Hori (Technical Advisor, Japan)
- Obeliscus teres 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. [807, pl. 171, figs. 31, 32].
Type data:
Status unknown, Island of Panay; on the shore (Mus. Cuming). - Wingenella pricena Laseron, C. 1959. The family Pyramidellidae (Mollusca) from northern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10: 177-267, figs 1-213 [190, figs. 17, 18].
Type data:
Holotype AM C.105361, Queensland, GBR, Green Is, off Cairns [16°46'S, 145°58'E].
Generic Combinations
- Pyramidella teres (A. Adams, 1854). —
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. 6] - Longchaeus sulcatus teres (A. Adams, 1854). —
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] - Longchaeus teres (A. Adams, 1854). —
Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [703, pl. 350, fig. 4]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian distribution from Australian Museum collection: Cockburn Sound, WA, northwards and around northern Australia to Caloundra, QLD. Extalimital distribution from Australian Museum Collection includes India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Papua-New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands & New caledonia. Okutani (2000) states distributional record from Japan southwards to tropical Indo-West Pacific.
IMCRA
Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
General References
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. Marine Shells of the Pacific. Sydney : Pacific Publications Vol. 2 411 pp., 68 pls. [200] (Considers O. teres to be a synonym of O. sulcatus)
Dekker, H. & Orlin, Z. 2000. Checklist of Red Sea Mollusca. Spirula 47(Supplement): 1-46 [33] (As Pyramidella teres)
Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [133, pl. 41, fig. 39] (as Longchaeus teres)
Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31 [29 June 1929] [291] (as Obeliscus teres)
Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp.
Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [284] (as Pyramidella teres)
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, fig. 82] (Considers O. teres to be a synonym of O. sulcata)
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 teres)
History of changes
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| 03-Oct-2018 | 09-May-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 14-Jan-2011 | ADDED |