Species Ranella australasia (Perry, 1811)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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

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)

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)

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