Species Reticunassa paupera (Gould, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nassa paupera Gould, A.A. 1850. Descriptions of the shells brought home by the U.S. Exploring Expedition (cont.). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 151-156 [155].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 5726, Pacific Ocean.
• Nassa microstoma Pease, W.H. 1860. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands, Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 141–148 [145].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1961458, Hawaiian Islands.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kay, E.A. 1965. Marine Molluscs in the Cuming collection, British Museum (Natural History) described by William Harper Pease. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology suppl. 1: 1-96, pls 1-14.
• Nassa dermestina Gould, A.A. 1860. Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 323-340 [331].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 24166, Kikaigashima, Ryukyu Is.
• Nassa plebecula Gould, A.A. 1860. Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 323-340 [332].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM 24168, Amami-O-Shima, Ryukyu Is.
• Nassa tringa Souverbie, M. 1864. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 3 12: 261-275, pl. 10 [272].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) New Caledonia.
• Nassa balteata Pease, W.H. 1869. Descriptions of new species of Marine Gastropodae inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 5(2): 64-79, pl. 8 [71, pl. 8, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ebon I, Marshall Is.
• Nassa costulata erythraea Issel, A. 1869. Malacologia del Mar Rosso. Richerche zoologische e paleontologiche. Pisa : Biblioteca malacologica pp. 1-388, pls 1-5. [126] [as Nassa costulata var. erythraea Issel, 1869].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Suez, Red Sea.
• Nassa mamillata Preston, H.B. 1907. Descriptions of two new species of Nassa from Fiji and New Caledonia. Journal de Conchyliologie 54: 267-269 [267, text fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1923.2.20.8, New Caledonia.
• Arcularia pilata Hedley, C. 1915. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 695–755, pls 77–85 [Date published 26 Feb.] [739, pl. 84, fig. 80].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.8071 dry, sandy mud bottom, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia [10°0'0"S, 143°0'0"E].
• Nassarius (Reticunassa) taggartorum Kuroda, T. 1960. A catalogue of molluscan fauna of the Okinawa Islands. Naha, Okinawa : Ryukyu Daigaku Kyomubu Fukyuka 106 pp, 3pls. [75, pl. 3, fig. 46].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Okinawa Is, Ryukyu Is.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [176]
• Kool, H.H. & Dekker, H. 2006. Review of the Narrarius pauper (Gould, 1850) complex (Gastropoda: Nassariidae). Part 1, with the description of four new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Visaya 1(6): 54-65 [55]

 

Generic Combinations

• Reticunassa paupera (Gould, 1850).
• Nassarius (Hima) pauperus (Gould, 1850). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [176-178, pl. 37, figs 1-14]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral sand, intertidal, marine, mud-silt, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 146 m.

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Nassarius pauperus (Gould, 1850). The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Nassariidae/Pages/Nassarius_pauperus.htm (date accessed 15/8/2012)

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [176, pl. 37, figs 1-14]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [275, fig. 95C]

Kool, H.H. & Dekker, H. 2006. Review of the Narrarius pauper (Gould, 1850) complex (Gastropoda: Nassariidae). Part 1, with the description of four new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Visaya 1(6): 54-65 [55]

Moolenbeek, R.G. 1995. Gastropods (Gastropoda). pp. 24-186 in Dance, S.P. (ed). Seashells of Eastern Arabia. Dubai : Motivate Publishing. [132, sp. 547]

Singer, B.S. & Miensis, H.K. 1997. The family Nassaridae of the Red Sea. Part 2. La Conchiglia 283: 36-43 [41]

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

 

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. [154] (Poor Dog Whelk)

 

History of changes

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