Species Retizafra plexa (Hedley, 1902)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columbella plexa Hedley, C. 1902. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26: 700-708 [702, fig. 25].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.11441 dry, Lady Bay, South Head, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°50'13.2"S, 151°16'40.8"E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Retizafra plexa (Hedley, 1902). —
  Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M91, sp. 955]
• Pyrene plexa (Hedley, 1902). —
  Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [343]
• Antizafra plexa (Hedley, 1902). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1957. Australian Recent and Tertiary Species of the Molluscan Family Pyrenidae. Adelaide : Privately published. [4, fig. 26]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Retizafra plexa [mis-identification]. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [108, text fig.]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Marine.

 

General References

Beechey, D.L. 2007. Retizafra plexa (Hedley, 1902). Seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Columbellidae/Pages/Retizafra_plexa.htm

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Australian Recent and Tertiary Species of the Molluscan Family Pyrenidae. Adelaide : Privately published. [4, fig. 26]

Verco, J.C. 1908. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part IX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 338-361 [Date published December] [343]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [108] (Not Retizafra plexa. See Beechey (2007))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	13-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED