Species Tritia ephamilla (Watson, 1882)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nassa ephamilla Watson, R.B. 1882. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 16: 324-343, 374-375 [370].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, E. of East Cape, 700 fathoms (1281 m), blue mud [37°34'S, 179°22'E].
• Nassa dissimilis Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [175, pl. 17, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.2.9.591, off New Zealand, 1100 fathoms (2013 m) [40°28'S, 177°43'E].
• Arcularia dipsacoides Hedley, C. 1907. The results of deepsea investigation in the Tasman Sea. II. The expedition of the "Woy Woy". 2. Mollusca from eight hundred fathoms, thirty-five miles east of Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 6: 356-364 [359, pl. 67, fig. 21].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.13298, 35 miles (56 km) E of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 800 fathoms (1464 m).
  Paratype(s) AM C.26624 dry, green ooze, 35 mls east of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'0"S, 152°0'0"E].
• Reticunassa flindersi Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. New species of South Australian Gastropoda. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6(2): 199-206 [204, pl. 17, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.13298, Cape Jaffa, South Australia, 300 fathoms (549 m).

 

Generic Combinations

• Nassarius (Cryptonassarius) ephamillus (Watson, 1882). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [55]
• Tritia ephamillus (Watson, 1882).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt.

Extra Ecological Information

146-3100 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Nassarius ephamillus (Watson, 1882). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Nassariidae/Pages/Nassarius_ephamillus.htm (date accessed 15/8/2012)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1981. Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18: 137-192 [180, figs 81-83]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [54]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [79, text fig.]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	06-Jun-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED