Genus Rimula Defrance, 1827

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• Rimula Defrance, 1825 [Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, 45: 472; not available from "Rimule" (vernacular) of Blainville, 1824, Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, Atlas: pl. 68, 70; and of Blainville, 1825, Manuel de malacologie et de conchyliologie: 501. Rimulus [d'Orbigny, 1839, Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba. Mollusques: 199] is an incorrect subsequent spelling. See also Rimularia].

  Type species:

   Emarginula blainvillii Defrance, 1825 by subsequent designation (Gray, 1847, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15: 147; [in Blainville] Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, 45: 472).

 

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), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), 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

Aktipis, S.W., Boehm, E. & Giribet, G. 2011. Another step towards understanding the slit-limpets (Fissurellidae, Fissurelloidea, Vetigastropoda, Gastropoda): a combined five-gene molecular phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta 40(3): 238-259 [239, 241, 253, 255]

McLean, J.H. 2011. Reinstatement of the Fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427 [423]

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1960. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part I. Mollusca 1. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press xxiii + 351 pp. [I229]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [58]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
08-Nov-2011	FISSURELLOIDEA	08-Nov-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Stephanie Baccarella (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Dr Winston Ponder (AM)
24-Aug-2011		24-Aug-2011	MOVED
		17-Aug-2011	MODIFIED