• Ranellina Gray, J.E. 1854. On the division of Ctenobranchous Gasteropodous Mollusca into larger groups and families. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (21): 32–44 [37] [original spelling].

  Type genus:

   Ranella Lamarck, 1816.

General References

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [21] (monograph and revisions of New Caledonian taxa)

Beu, A.G. 1998. Superfamily Tonnoidea. pp. 792-803 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [799-802]

Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120 [86]

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [253]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [240]

History of changes

General References

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [21] (monograph and revisions of New Caledonian taxa)

Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120 [86]

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [253]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [241]

History of changes

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific

General References

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [21]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [242]

History of changes

• Ranella Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : Verdière.

  Type species:

   Ranella gigantea Lamarck by subsequent designation, see Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp.
• Gyrina Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [253] [Gyrinea [Mörch, 1877, Malakozoologische Blätter, 24: 24] is an incorrect subsequent spelling; see also Eugyrina; Gyrina maculata is a substitute name for Buccinum reticulatum Chemn. pl. 128 fig. 1223].

  Type species:

   Gyrina maculata Schumacher by original designation.
• Eugyrina Dall, W.H. 1904. A historical and systematic review of the frog-shells and tritons. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 47: 114-144 [132] [established as a substitute name for Gyrina Schumacher, 1817, treated by Dall as a junior homonym of Gyrinus Linnaeus, 1867 [Coleoptera].].

  Type species:

   Ranella gigantea Lamarck by original designation.
• Mayena Iredale, T. 1917. More molluscan name-changes, generic and specific. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 12(6): 322-330 [324].

  Type species:

   Ranella australasia Perry by original designation.
• Gyrinopsis Dall, 1925.

  Type species:

   Gyrinopsis cowlitzi Dall, 1925 by original designation, see Dall, W.H. 1925. Illustrations of unfigured types of shells in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66(2554): 1-41, pls 1-36.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

General References

Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp. [33]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [55]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [242]

History of changes

• Biplex australasia Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls. [pl. 4, figs 2, 4].
• Triton leucostomum Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [542].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Tasmania.
• Mayena australasia benthicola Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [173, pl. 41, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.57728 dry, off Montague Island, New South Wales, Australia [36°10'1.2"S, 150°13'58.8"E].

Generic Combinations

• Ranella australasia australasia (Perry, 1811). —
  Beu, A.G. 1976. New records of Cymatiidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from Kapitean to Castle-Cliffian (Late Miocene to early Pleistocene) rocks of East Cape District, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 19(2): 297-310 [300]
• Mayena australasia (Perry, 1811). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [55]

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [242] (refers to Beu)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, rocks, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 120 m

General References

Beu, A.G. 1985. A classification and catalogue of living world Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae. Conchologists of America Bulletin 13(4): 55-66 [57]

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [34]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [242]

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. [112, pl. 20, fig. 24] (Australian Triton)

History of changes