Species Pyreneola abyssicola (Brazier, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columbella (Amycla) abyssicola Brazier, J. 1877. Shells collected during the Chevert Expedition, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(3): 224-240 [232].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.12064 dry, sandy mud, Torres Strait, Darnley Island, Queensland, Australia [9°34'58.8"S, 143°46'1.2"E].
• Columbella (Mitrella) semipicta Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1894. Descriptions of new species of marine shells from the neighbourhood of Hong-Kong. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 1(4): 153-159, pl. 12 [154, pl. 12, fig. 3].
• Columbella melvilli Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part 1. Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3(7): 395–488, 49 text figs [Date published March 6] [463, fig. 38].
• Columbella subphilodicia Hervier, J. 1899. Le genre Columbella dan l'Archipel de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 47: 305-391 [333, pl. 13, fig. 2].
• Columbella delineata Thiele, J. 1925. Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Theil 2. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 17(2): 35-382, pls 313-346 [177, pl. 31, fig. 10] [as ?Columbella delineata Thiele, 1925].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sleurs, W.J. 1987. The marine microgastropods from the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) III. Family Columbellidae (Subfamily Pyreninae), with description of two new species. Indo-Malayan Zoology 4: 33-68 [54]

 

Generic Combinations

• Pyreneola abyssicola (Brazier, 1877). —
  Sleurs, W.J. 1987. The marine microgastropods from the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) III. Family Columbellidae (Subfamily Pyreninae), with description of two new species. Indo-Malayan Zoology 4: 33-68 [53]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific. Wilson (1994) reports the range as Shark bay, WA, across northern Australia to NSW, but Beechey (2007) was unable to find specimens from NSW.

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

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [89]

Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part 1. Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3(7): 395–488, 49 text figs [Date published March 6] [463]

Sleurs, W.J. 1987. The marine microgastropods from the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) III. Family Columbellidae (Subfamily Pyreninae), with description of two new species. Indo-Malayan Zoology 4: 33-68 [53]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [105]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	03-Oct-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		13-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED