Genus Ranella Lamarck, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	13-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED