Genus Rapana Schumacher, 1817

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rapana Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [65, 214] [Rapanus [Blainville, 1826, Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, 44: 452] is an incorrect subsequent spelling. Rapanus Sowerby [non Schumacher, 1817] 1839 is listed as a separate name in Neave, 1940, Nomenclator Zoologicus, 4: 12, but Sowerby [A conchological manual, ed. 1: 92] explicitly attributed the name to Schumacher. Prior to Radwin & d'Attilio, Cossmann [1903, Essais de paléoconchologie comparée, 5: 63] and Wenz [1941, Handbuch der Paläozoologie, 6(5): 1083] cited Buccinum bezoar Linnaeus, 1767, as the type species; however, although it is a senior subjective synonym of Rapana foliacea, it was not an originally included nominal species, and this did not qualify as a valid type designation].

  Type species:

   Rapana foliacea Schumacher, 1817 by subsequent designation (Radwin & d'Attilio, 1975, Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 17(20): 286).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Red Sea to Japan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [46]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	12-Oct-2011	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		11-Oct-2011	MODIFIED