Species Pyrene punctata (Bruguière, 1789)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Buccinum punctatum Bruguière, J.G. 1789. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle des Vers. Paris : Agasse Vol. 1(1) i-xviii, 757 pp. [281, pl. 374, fig. 4a,b].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, 'sur la cote Est de l'Afrique'.
• Voluta discors 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] [3455, pl. 150, fig. 1405].
• Pyrene rhombiferum Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [134, pl. 44, fig. 465].
• Columbella semipunctata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [294].
• Columbella zellina 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.
• Pyrene opulens Woolacott, L. 1957. Notes on Australian shells. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1955-1956: 112-117, pl. 3 [113, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.103284 dry, north east of Grafton, south of Yamba, Angourie, New South Wales, Australia [29°28'58.8"S, 153°21'28.8"E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. Marine Shells of the Pacific. Sydney : Pacific Publications Vol. 2 411 pp., 68 pls. [132]

 

Generic Combinations

• Pyrene punctata (Bruguiere, 1789).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, on algae, rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

On seaweed.

 

General References

Beechey, D.L. 2004. Pyrene punctata (Bruguière, 1789). Seashells of New Soutrh Wales web site. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Columbellidae/Pages/Pyrene_punctata.htm

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Australian Recent and Tertiary Species of the Molluscan Family Pyrenidae. Adelaide : Privately published.

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)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED