Species Pyrene obtusa (Sowerby, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columbella obtusa Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1832. Descriptions of new species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1832(2): 113-120 [117, fig. 63].
• Colombella uvania Duclos, P.L. 1840. Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere de tous genres de coquilles univalves marines a l etat vivant et fossile publiee par monographie. Genre Columbelle. Paris : Didot. [pl. 10, fig. 5-6].
• Columbella funiculata Souverbie, M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1865. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 150-159, pl. 5 [157, pl. 5, fig. 8] [Souverbie in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1865].
• Pyrene obtusa curta Schmeltz, J.D.K. 1874. Museum Godeffroy Catalog 5. Hamburg : L. Friederichsen & Co. 215 pp. [125] [as Pyrene obtusa var. curta Schmeltz, 1874].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pyrene obtusa (Sowerby, 1832).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Oceania, Eastern Indian Ocean, Indo-Arabia, Reunion Island.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Drivas, J. & Jay, M. 1990. The Columbellidae of Réunion Island (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annals of the Natal Museum 31: 163-200 [165]

Schmeltz, J.D.K. 1874. Museum Godeffroy Catalog 5. Hamburg : L. Friederichsen & Co. 215 pp. [125]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [107]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED