Species Rissoina ambigua (Gould, 1849)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pyramidella ambigua Gould, A.A. 1849. Dr Gould presented the following descriptions of new shells, brought home by the U.S. Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 118-121, 140-145 [118, pl. 15, fig. 261a-c].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM, Clermont Tonnere Island, Réao, Tuamotu Is.
• Rissoa multicostata Garrett, A. 1857. On new species of marine shells of the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 1: 102-103 [103] [junior homonym; not Rissoa multicostata C.B. Adams, 1850].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP, Hilo, Sandwich [=Hawaiian] Islands.
• Rissoina myosoroides Schwartz von Mohrenstern, G. 1860. Ueber die Familie der Rissoiden und insbesondere die Gattung, Rissoina. 1-120, pls 1-11 [134, fig. 30].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW 25748, Mauritius.
• Rissoina pusilla Schwartz von Mohrenstern, G. 1860. Ueber die Familie der Rissoiden und insbesondere die Gattung, Rissoina. 1-120, pls 1-11 [pl. 4, fig. 29].
• Rissoina costulifera Pease, W.H. 1862. Catalogue des espèces de Rissoina des îles Sandwich et description d'une espèce nouvelle. Journal de Conchyliologie 10: 381-383 [382] [replacement name; for Rissoina multicostata Garrett, 1857].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sandwich Islands.
• Rissoa subconcinna Souverbie, S.M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1872. Diagnoses de Mollusques inedits provenant de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 20: 361–365 [364].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ile Art, New Caledonia.
• Rissoina pulchella Brazier, J. 1877. Continuation of the Mollusca collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(4): 362-368 [367].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM A.145i, Barnard Islands, Queensland.
• Rissoina materinsulae Pilsbry, H.A. 1904. New Japanese marine Mollusca: Gastropoda. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 56: 3-37, pls 1-6 [27, pl. 5, figs 43-43a].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 85976, Hahajima, Ogasawara (Bonin Islands) [26°37'N, 142°10'E]; KBIN ex Hirase No. 1390a, Hahajima, Ogasawara (Bonin Islands) [26°37'N, 142°10'E].
• Rissoina crebrecostata Thiele, J. 1930. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. pp. 561-596 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmayer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5. [572, fig. 15].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 67456, Shark Bay, Western Australia [25°30'S, 113°30'E].
• Peripetella queenslandica Laseron, C. 1956. The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Damperian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(3): 384-484 [400, fig. 32].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.102387 dry, under stones, Bowen, Queensland, Australia [20°1'1.2'S,148°15'0'E].
• Peripetella immersa Laseron, C. 1956. The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Damperian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(3): 384-484 [401, fig. 33].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.102385 dry, off Cape Flattery, Rocky Isle, Queensland, Australia [14°51'0'S,145°28'58.8'E].
• Rissoina (Rissoina) ambigua parryensis Ladd, H.S. 1966. Chitons and gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from the western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 531: 1-98 16 pls [72, pl. 14, figs 25, 26].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 648425, Eniwetok (? late Miocene).

 

Generic Combinations

• Rissoina (Rissoina) ambigua (Gould, 1849). —
  Ponder, W.F. 1985. A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum suppl. 4: 1-221 [80]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [44, pl. 11, fig. 6]

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. [84, fig. 29A]

Ponder, W.F. 1985. A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum suppl. 4: 1-221 [79, figs 53B, 129 E-G]

Sleurs, W.J.M. 1992. Een systatische en zoogeografische studie van de Rissoininae (Stimpson, 1865) (Gastropoda: Rissoidae), met inbegrip van een revisie van de recente soorten. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven : Thesis 503 pp. [93-101]

Sleurs, W.J.M. & Preece, R.C. 1994. The Rissoininae (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) of the Pitcairn Islands, with the description of two new species. Journal of Conchology 35(1): 67-82 [69]

Taylor, J.D. & Reid, D.G. 1984. The abundance and trophic classification of molluscs upon coral reefs in the Sudanese Red Sea. Journal of Natural History 18 [201]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	19-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	RISSOOIDEA	23-Feb-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		17-Jan-2012	MODIFIED