Species Rolandiella umbilicata (Tenison-Woods, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trophon umbilicatus Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [135].
• Murex scalaris Adams, A. 1854. Descriptions of new shells from the collection of H. Cuming Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1853(21): 69-74 [71] [not Murex scalaris Brocchi, 1814].
• Murex (Phyllonotus) angasi Tryon, G.W. 1880. Muricinae and Purpurinae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 2. [109] [replacement name; for Murex scalaris A. Adams, 1854].

 

Generic Combinations

• Muricopsis (Muricopsis) octogonus umbilicatus (Tenison-Woods, 1876). —
  Ponder, W.F. 1972. Notes on some Australian genera and species of the family Muricidae (Neogastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2(3): 215-248 [238, pl. 22, fig. 3, text fig. 3: 25]
• Murexsul umbilicatus (Tenison-Woods, 1876). —
  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. [142]
• Muricopsis umbilicatus (Tenison-Woods, 1876). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [40, pl. 6, fig. 24]
• Rolandiella umbilicatus (Tenison-Woods, 1876).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

B.A. Marshall & K.W. Burch 2000. The New Zealand Recent species of Muricopsis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 (Gastropoda: Muricidae). The Nautilus 114: 18-29

Bouchet, P. & Houart, R. 2013. Rolandiella umbilicata (Tenison-Woods, 1876). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=407932 (Accessed on 2017-06-20)

Merle, D. & Houart, R. 2003. Ontogenetic changes of the spiral cords as keys innovation of the muricid sculptural patterns: the example of the Muricopsis–Murexsul lineages (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricopsinae). Comptes Rendus Palevol. 2 (6-7): 547-561.

Ponder, W.F. 1972. Notes on some Australian genera and species of the family Muricidae (Neogastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2(3): 215-248 [238, pl. 22, fig. 3, text fig. 3: 25]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [40, pl. 6, fig. 24]

 

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. [142] (Umbilicated Murex)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	20-Jun-2017	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		05-Oct-2011	MODIFIED