Species Pyramidella ventricosa Guérin, 1831

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pyramidella ventricosa Guérin, F.E. 1831. Pyramidella ventricosa Guérin. Magasin de Zoologie Classe V Mollusques 1(1): pl. 2, figs 1,2 [Pl. 2, figs. 1,2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Islands.
• Obeliscus scitulus 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].

 

Generic Combinations

• Milda ventricosa (Guérin, 1831). —
  Laseron, C. 1959. The family Pyramidellidae (Mollusca) from northern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10: 177-267, figs 1-213 [186, fig. 1]
• Pyramidella (Milda) ventricosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1834. —
  Schepman, M.M. 1909. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 3 Gymnoglossa. pp.234-245 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga-Expedite. Leiden : Brill Vol. 48. [242] (Schepman listed the species as “Pyramidella (Milda) ventricosa Quoy & Gaimard” with a note explaining that “Many authors quote Guérin as the author of this species. As I was not able to settle the question, I followed the recent opinion of Dall & Bartsch (1904)”)
• Obeliscus ventricosus (Guérin, 1831). —
  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]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Western and central tropical Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

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. 71, figs. 13, 15] (as Obeliscus ventricosa)

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, fig. 2] (as Pyramidella ventricosa)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. Marine Shells of the Pacific. Sydney : Pacific Publications Vol. 2 411 pp., 68 pls. [200, pl. 57, figs. 3, 3a] (as Pyramidella ventricosa)

Clessin, S 1902. Die Familie der Eulimidae. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz 1(28): 1-273, pls 1-41 [55, pl. 13, fig. 2] (as Obeliscus ventricosus)

Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [36, pl. 83] (as Pyramidella ventricosa)

Dall, W.H. & Bartsch, P. 1904. Synopsis of the genera, subgenera and sections of the family Pyramidellidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 17: 1-16 [4] (as Milda ventricosa Quoy (error))

Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [356] (as Milda ventricosa)

Laseron, C. 1959. The family Pyramidellidae (Mollusca) from northern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 10: 177-267, figs 1-213 [186] (as Milda ventricosa)

Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [702, pl. 350, fig. 6] (as Milda ventriciosa)

Quoy, J.R.C & Gaimard, J.P. 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 2 320 pp. [175, pl. 67, figs. 3-7] (Plate 67 is numbered incorrectly as plate 65; as Pyramidella ventricosa)

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. 2, fig. 15] (As Pyramidella ventricosa)

Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [62, pl. 6, fig. 15] (As Milda ventricosa)

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. 10] (As Milda ventricosa)

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [283, pl. 81, fig. 3] (As Pyramidella ventricosa)

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. [299, pl. 72, figs. 63-65] (As Pyramidella ventricosa)

 

Common Name References

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] (Ventricose Pyramid)

 

History of changes

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03-Oct-2018	HETEROSTROPHA	15-Jul-2016	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
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