General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [666-667]

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [244]

Geiger, D.L. 2003. Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83 [25-41]

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 2 pp. 730-1291. [Date published 30 October 2012]

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012]

Geiger, D.L. & Thacker, C.E. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Vetigastropoda reveals non-monophyletic Scissurellidae, Trochoidea, and Fissurelloidea. Molluscan Research 25(1): 47-55 [47-53]

Hickman, C.S. 1998. Family Scissurellidae. pp. 666-667 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 15. [666-667]

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [50-55]

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. [I221]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [45-46]

History of changes

• Incisura Hedley, C. 1904. Additions to the Marine Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 86-97 [91].

  Type species:

   Scissurella lyttletonensis E.A.Smith, 1894 by original designation.
• Scissurona Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [182, 215] [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 49(3): 182, 215].

  Type species:

   Scissurella rosea Hedley, 1904 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand

IMCRA

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)

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2003. Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83 [37-39, fig. 10]

Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [7-14]

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. [I221]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [46]

History of changes

• Incisura auriformis Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [7-10, figs 1-2, 3A-C, 3G].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA C.402714: mounted on AMS stub 4366, Cape Peron, 30 miles [56km] S of Perth, WA, Australia [32.270°S, 115.685°E].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Australia, 0-4 m depth

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Algae, intertidal, marine, seagrass, subtidal.

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [695] (as Incisura auriformis Geiger & Jansen, 2004)

History of changes

• Scissurella obliqua Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1902. Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Part VI. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 15(2): 176–223 [181] [junior homonym; not Scissurella obliqua Watson, 1886].
• Scissurona rosea remota Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [215].

  Type data:

   Holotype Whereabouts unknown, Twofold Bay, New South Wales.
• Scissurona vincentiana Cotton, B.C. 1945. Southern Australian Gastropoda. Part 1. Streptoneura. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 69(1): 150-171 [150].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D14109, Glenelg, Gulf of St Vincent, South Australia, shell sand.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [10]

Generic Combinations

• Scissurona remota Iredale, 1924. —
  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1933. South Australian Shells. Part 9. South Australian Naturalist 15(1): 14-24 [21-22]
• Scissurella rosea remota (Iredale, 1924). —
  Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [52, figs. 31-33]
  Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [10]
• Incisura remota (Iredale, 1924). —
  Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [10]
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [707]
• Scissurella remota (Iredale, 1924). —
  Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [34]
• Scissurona rosea remota Iredale, 1924. —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [30]
• Incisura rosea remota (Iredale, 1924). —
  Geiger, D.L. 2003. Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83 [75, fig. 10]
• Incisura vincentiana (Cotton, 1945). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [46]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Scisurona rosea [misidentification - is Incisura remota]. —
  May, W.L. & Macpherson, J.H. 1958. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells revised by J. Hope Macpherson. Hobart : Government Printer 54 pp. [21, pl. 17. fig. 3]
• Scissurella obliqua [misidentification. Is Incisura remota]. —
  Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1902. On some new species of Victorian mollusca, No. 5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 14(2): 180-184, pls 9-10 [181]
  Verco, J.C. 1910. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 34: 115-145 [115-116]
• Scissurella rosea Hedley, 1904 [misidentification - is Incisura remota]. —
  May, W.L. 1921. A Checklist of the Mollusca of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania : Government Printer 114 pp. [34, pl. 17, fig. 3]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Algae, continental shelf, marine.

General References

Vafiadis, P. 2010. The living morphology of the marine snails Incisura remota (Iredale, 1924) and Sukashitrochus atkinsoni (Tenison Woods, 1877) (Vetigastropoda: Scissurellidae). The Victorian Naturalist 127(6): 255-265 [256-260, figs 1-3]

History of changes

• Satondella Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120 [64].

  Type species:

   Satondella minuta Bandel, 1998 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Norfolk Island Province (21), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Luque, Á.A., Geiger, D.L. & Rolán. E. 2011. A revision of the genus Satondella Bandel, 1998 (Gastropoda, Scissurellidae). Molluscan Research 31(1): 1-14 [2]

History of changes

• Satondella cachoi Luque, Á.A., Geiger, D.L. & Rolán. E. 2011. A revision of the genus Satondella Bandel, 1998 (Gastropoda, Scissurellidae). Molluscan Research 31(1): 1-14 [8-10, figs 5A-M].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHNN 22618, Loyalty Basin [20°35'S 166°55'E 470-480 m].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical western Indian Ocean, through south-east and east Asia and northern Australia to central Pacific Ocean.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Norfolk Island Province (21), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, marine.

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [668] (as Satondella cachoi Luque, Geiger & Rolán, 2011)

History of changes

• Scissurella d'Orbigny, A.D. 1824. Monographie d'un nouveau genre de mollusque gastéropode de la famille des trochoides. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 2 1: 340-345, pl. 23 [341, 343] [Sissurella [Scacchi, 1836, Catalogus conchyliorum regni neapolitani: 16] is an incorrect subsequent spelling].

  Type species:

   Scissurella laevigata d'Orbigny, 1824 by subsequent designation, see Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242 [146].
• Schismope Jeffreys, J.G. 1856. Note on the genus Scissurella. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London 2 17: 319-321 [321].

  Type species:

   Scissurella striatula Philippi, 1844 by monotypy (Pilsbry, 1890, Manual of Conchology, ser. 1, 12: 49, cited Scissurella cingulata O.G. Costa, 1861, as type species, but this was not an originally included species).

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Easter Island

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Christmas Island Province (23), Macquarie Island Province (24), 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)

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2003. Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83 [26-27]

Geiger, D.L. 2008. Monographing micromolluscs: a case study on Scissurellidae s.l. (Vetigastropoda). Zoosymposia 1: 133-145

Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [14-38]

Geiger, D.L. & Thacker, C.E. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Vetigastropoda reveals non-monophyletic Scissurellidae, Trochoidea, and Fissurelloidea. Molluscan Research 25(1): 47-55

Marshall, B.A. 2002. Some Recent scissurellids from the New Zealand region and remarks on some scissurellid genus group names (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Molluscan Research 22: 165-181 [166-169]

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. [I221]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [45-46]

History of changes

• Anatoma cebuana Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120 [32-33, pl. 10, figs. 3-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype SGPIH 3886, Ocean side reef slope off Ceby City, Philippines [10.283°N 124.017°E].

Generic Combinations

• Scissurella cebuana (Bandel, 1998). —
  Geiger, D.L. 2003. Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83 [76]
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [152]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan Archipelago, including north-western Australia

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28)

History of changes

• Scissurella coronata Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [114, pl. 8, fig. 4] [nomen dubium; according to Geiger (2012)].

Introduction

Scissurella coronata Watson, 1886 was declared a nomen dubium by Geiger (2012), but he did provide an alternate name. Jansen (1999) used the name Scissurella coronata Watson, 1886 for specimens from tropical Australia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

North West Cape, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland south to Heron Island; Middleton Reef Coral Sea; Fiji; Loyalty Islands; Moorea; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Malaysia.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 35 m.

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [166]

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [51, figs 22-24]

History of changes

• Scissurella cyprina Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. New species of South Australian Gastropoda. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6(2): 199-206 [199].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.9674, Venus Bay, South Australia, 55 fathoms.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [45-46, fig. 16]

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [185] (as Scissurella cyprina Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)

Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [14-20, figs 6-8, 9A-C]

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [50-51, figs 19-21]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [46]

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [45] (Venus Slit Shell)

History of changes

• Scissurella evaensis Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120 [15-16, pl. 3, fig. 8; pl. 4, figs 1-2].

  Type data:

   Holotype 3871/3872 (in Geological-Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University Hamburg, Germany), Indonesian Sea near Satonda [8.100°S, 117.750°E].
• Maxwellella unispirata Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120 [22-23, pl. 7 figs 8; pl. 8 figs 1-2].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [194]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Mawellella unispirata [error. Mawellella should be Maxwellella]. —
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [195]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Indian Ocean through south-east and east Asia to central Pacific, including northern Australia.

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, marine.

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [194]

Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [26-28, figs 13, 17C]

History of changes

• Scissurella lorenzi Geiger, D.L. 2006. Eight new species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from around the world, with discussion of two new senior synonyms. Zootaxa 1128: 1-33 [7].

  Type data:

   Holotype SBMNH 350876, Baudisson Bay, Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua new Guinea [2.743°S, 150.658°E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malay Archipelago to Western Pacific

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [222] (as Scissurella lorenzi Geiger, 2006)

History of changes

• Anatomus mirifica Adams, A. 1862. On some new species of Scissurellidae from the seas of China and Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 10: 346-348 [348].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1874.5.19.63, Lo-shan-kow, Shantung, China [36°N, 120°E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [236].
• Scissurella declinans Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [115, pl. 8, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1887.2.9.404-405, Raine Island, Cape York, QLD, Australia [11°38'15"S, 143°59'38"E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [235]

Generic Combinations

• Scissurella mirifica (A. Adams, 1862). —
  Crosse, H. 1863. Bibliographie. Journal de Conchyliologie 11: 101-111 [110]
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [235]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

South-east Asia to central Pacific, including northern Australia and Papua-New Guinea, with questionable records from NSW and South Australia.

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

General References

Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [20-26, figs 9D, 10-12] (as Scissurella declinans Watson, 1886)

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [51, figs 25-27]

History of changes

• Scissurella ornata May, W.L 1909. Additions to the Tasmanian Molluscan fauna. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1908: 53-59, pl. 6 [Date published April 1909] [57, pl. 6, figs 4-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype TM, Frederick Henry Bay, Tasmania.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Scissurella ornata non May, 1908 [misidentification - is juvenile Sinezona pacifica]. —
  Jansen, P. 1995. Seashells of Central New South Wales. Townsville pp. 1-129. [11, fig. 14]
• Scissurella ornata non May, 1908 [misidentification - is Scissurella cyprina]. —
  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1933. South Australian Shells. Part 9. South Australian Naturalist 15(1): 14-24 [21, pl. 2, fig. 8]
  May, W.L. & Macpherson, J.H. 1958. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells revised by J. Hope Macpherson. Hobart : Government Printer 54 pp. [21, pl. 17, fig. 2]

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

On kelp stems

General References

Beechey, D.L. 2004. Families Anatomidae and Scissurellidae (Coverage). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Scissurellidae/Pages/scissurellidae_intro.htm#Coverage [Date accessed 12 April 2012]

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [257] (as May, 1908)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [30]

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [51-52, figs 28-30]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [46]

History of changes

• Scissurella petermannensis Lamy, E. 1910. Mission dans l'Antarctique dirigée par M. le Dr. Charcot (1908-1910) collections recueillies par M. le Dr. Jacques Liouville. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 16(7): 388-394 [323-324, pl.1, figs.14-16].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP Unknown, Petermann Island, Antartica [65.183°S 64.167°W].
• Scissurella timora Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1912. The marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Part 2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 48: 333-366 + 1 pl [345, pl.48, fig.2, 2a].
• Scissurella mediplicata Thiele, J. 1925. Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Theil 2. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 17(2): 1-348, pls 1-34 [42, pl.13, figs.3-4].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [260]

Generic Combinations

• Schizotrochus petermannensis (Lamy, 1910). —
  Carcelles, A. 1953. Catálogo de la malacofauna antárctica argentina. Anales del Museo Nahuel Huapí 3: 155-250, pls1-5 [162, pl.1, fig.7]
• Schizotrochus timora (Melvill & Standen, 1912). —
  Carcelles, A. 1953. Catálogo de la malacofauna antárctica argentina. Anales del Museo Nahuel Huapí 3: 155-250, pls1-5 [161, pl1, fig.6]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Circumantarctic

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

RAMS 2011. Scissurella petermannensis Lamy, 1910. De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds). The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS). http://www.scarmarbin.be/rams.php?p=taxdetails&id=493080 [Accessed on 2011-08-23]

Zelaya, D.G. & Geiger, D.L. 2007. Species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 49(2): 393-443 [422-427, figs.123-146]

History of changes

• Scissurella phenax Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [266].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA C.377897, 6m, New year Island, Northern Territory, Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malay Archipelago to central Pacific

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Scissurella quadrata Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [29-33, figs 14-16, 17A-B, 17D].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA C.402642, GBR, Euston Reef, SW side, QLD, Australia [16.667°S, 146.217°E].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malaysia to central Pacific, from Malaysia to Society Islands

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Algae, coral rubble, marine, subtidal.

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [278] (as Scissurella quadrata Geiger & Jansen, 2004)

History of changes

• Scissurella spinosa Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [33-38, figs 17E, 18-20].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA C.348694, GBR, Swain Reefs, Bylund Gillett Cay, QLD, Australia [21.717°S, 152.417°E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific; from southern Japan to Sydney, Thailand to French Polynesia

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Algae, coral rubble, marine.

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [307] (as Geiger & Jansen, 2004)

History of changes

• Scissurella xandaros Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [330, figs 211-214].

  Type data:

   Holotype SBMNH 149865, 15-35 m, Baudisson Bay, New Ireland, papua-New Guinea.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan Archipelago to entral Pacific

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Sinezona Finlay, H.J. 1926. A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 57: 320-485 pls 18-23 [Issued separately 23 Dec 1926; but Vol. 57 issued 10 March, 1927] [341, 346].

  Type species:

   Schismope brevis Hedley, 1904 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from South Africa to Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Christmas Island Province (23), Macquarie Island Province (24), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2003. Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83 [32-37]

Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [38-46]

Geiger, D.L. & Sasaki, T. 2009. New Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from Manazuru, Sagami Bay, and Okinawa, Japan (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Molluscan Research 29(1): 1-16 [2-6]

Healy, J.M. 1990. Sperm structure in the scissurellid gastropod Sinezona sp. (Prosobranchia, Pleurotomarioidea). Zoologica Scripta 19: 189-193

Marshall, B.A. 2002. Some Recent scissurellids from the New Zealand region and remarks on some scissurellid genus group names (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Molluscan Research 22: 165-181 [169-176]

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. [I221]

History of changes

• Schismope beddomei Petterd, W. 1884. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Journal of Conchology 4: 135-145 [139].

  Type data:

   Holotype TMAG E224/7565 (TM 10916) Shell completely broken, North West Coast, Tasmania.

Generic Combinations

• Sinezona beddomei (Petterd, 1884). —
  Lozouet, P. 1986. Les gastéropodes prosobranches de l'Oligocene Supérieur du bassin de l'Adour (Systématique, Paléoenvironnements, Paléoclimatologie, Paléobiogeographie). Diploma Thesis, Ecole Practique des Hautes Études, Paris. pp. 475, 34 pls [110]
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [46]
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [376]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Schismope beddomei non Petterd, 1884 [Misidentiofication - is Sinezona laqueus]. —
  Suter, H. 1909. The Mollusca of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand Article 1: 1-57 [7]
  Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Wellington : Government Printer xxii, 1210 pp. [90, pl. 6, fig. 30]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [43, fig. 13]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [30] (as Schismope beddomei Petterd, 1884)

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [54, figs 46-48]

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [43] (Beddome Slit Shell)

History of changes

• Sinezona calumnior Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [389-394, figs 283-286].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM S13382, Hopetoun, WA [33.867°S 120.133°E].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical and sub-tropical waters from Sri Lanka to French Polynesia.

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Sinezona danieldreieri geiger, D.L. 2008. New species of scissulellids from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia. and the Indio-Malay Archipelago (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Scissurellidae, Anatomida, Larocheidae). Nautilus 122: 185-200 [186-190, figs 1-9].

  Type data:

   Holotype SBMNH 83540, 0-5 m, Lumu Reef, Kimbe Bay, New Britain, Papua-New Guinea.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malay Archipelago to southern Polynesia

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)

Distribution References

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [432] (as Sinezona danieldreieri Geiger, 2008)

History of changes

• Schismope ferriezi Crosse, H. 1867. Description d'un genre nouveau et de plusieurs espèces inédites provenant de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 15: 312-321 [318, pl. 11, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, Noumea, New Caledonia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [444]; Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [445].
• Scissurella padangensis Thiele, J. 1912. Scissurelliden und Fissurelliden. pp. 1-36, 4 pl in Küster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Bd 9 Abt. 2. [25, table 3, figs 23, 24].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [444]

Generic Combinations

• Sinezona ferriezi (Crosse, 1867). —
  Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [54-55, figs 52-54]
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [444]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan Archipelago to central Pacific.

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Beach to 30m.

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2006. Eight new species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from around the world, with discussion of two new senior synonyms. Zootaxa 1128: 1-33 [18]

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [54-55, figs 52-54]

History of changes

• Sinezona marrowi Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [500-503, figs. 379-381].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 229503, 0m, Maricaban Island, Philippines.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean, Indo-Malay Archipelago

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Sinezona norfolkensis Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [516-519, figs 394-396].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMNZ M174823, 2-5 m, Kingston Lagoon, Norfolk Island [20.060°S 167.955°E]
  Comment: In the original description, Norfolk Island is given as "New Zealand" which is incorrect.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Norfolk Island and Kermadec Islands

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Schismope pacifica Oliver, W.R.B. 1915. The Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 509-568 [514, pl. 6, 6a].

  Type data:

   Holotype Declared lost, Kermadec Islands
  Comment: Declared lost by Geiger (2012) p. 520).
• Daizona pacifica Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120 [58, pl. 19, figs 6-8].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [519]

Generic Combinations

• Sinezona pacifica (Oliver, 1915). —
  Brook, F.J. & Marshall, B.A. 1998. Appendix: Checklist of benthic coastal marine chitons, gastropods and cephalopods of the northen Kermadec Islands. pp. 210-233 in Brook, F.J. The coastal molluscan fauna of the northen Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28: 185-233 [214]
  Marshall, B.A. 2002. Some Recent scissurellids from the New Zealand region and remarks on some scissurellid genus group names (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Molluscan Research 22: 165-181 [173]
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [519]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Temperate Australia; Kermadec Islands; Norfolk Island; New Zealand

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [55, figs 55-57]

History of changes

• Schismope plicata Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part 2. Pelecypoda and Brachiopoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3: 489-510 [552, fig. 62].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA C.5640, off Becon Islet (Funamanu), Funafuti, 150 fathoms.
• Woodwardia provecta Beets, C. 1943. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der angeblich oberoligocänen Mollusken-Fauna der Insel Buton, Niederländsch-Ostindien. Leidsche Geologische Mededelingen 13: 256-328 [260, pl. 27, figs. 4-7].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [533]

Generic Combinations

• Sinezona plicata (Hedley, 1899). —
  Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [533]
• Reussella plicata (Hedley, 1899). —
  Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120 [46-47, Pl. 15, fig. 8]
  Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [38-46, figs 21-23, 24]
• Scissurella (Sukuashitrochus) plicatus (Hedley, 1899). —
  Lozouet, P. 1986. Les gastéropodes prosobranches de l'Oligocene Supérieur du bassin de l'Adour (Systématique, Paléoenvironnements, Paléoclimatologie, Paléobiogeographie). Diploma Thesis, Ecole Practique des Hautes Études, Paris. pp. 475, 34 pls [109]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean to central Pacific, 0-366 m.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

History of changes

• Schismope subantarctica Hedley, C. 1916. Mollusca. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14, Scientific Reports, Series C: Zoology & Botany 4(1): 1–80 [36, pl.5, figs.54-55].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM (Not found in AMS by Geiger, 2001), Aerial Cove, Macquarie Island.

Generic Combinations

• Ariella subantarctica (Hedley, 1916). —
  Geiger, D.L. 2003. Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83 [75, fig.15g]
  Zelaya, D.G. & Geiger, D.L. 2007. Species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 49(2): 393-443 [432-435, figs. 179-181]
• Sinezona subantarctica (Hedley, 1916). —
  Powell, A.W.B. 1955. Mollusca of the southern islands of New Zealand. Cape Expedition Series Bulletin. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 15: 1-151 [46]
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [564]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Subantarctic islands, including Macquarie Island, Crozet Islands, Magellan Region

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

History of changes

• Sukashitrochus Habe, T. & Kosuge, S. 1964. List of the indo-Pacific Mollusca concerning to the Japanese Fauna. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 8 [3].

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australia

IMCRA

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)

General References

Geiger, D.L. 2003. Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83 [40-41, fig. 15I]

Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [46-62]

Geiger, D.L. & Thacker, C.E. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Vetigastropoda reveals non-monophyletic Scissurellidae, Trochoidea, and Fissurelloidea. Molluscan Research 25(1): 47-55 [49-53]

History of changes

• Scissurella atkinsoni Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1877. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1876: 131–159 [Date published 27 Feb 1877] [149].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) TMAG E222A/7563A (TM5571) Three shells, one damaged, Blackman's Bay, Tasmania, 6-10 fathoms.
• Schismope tasmanica Petterd, W. 1879. New species of Tasmanian marine shells. Journal of Conchology 2: 102-105 [104].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Blackmans Bay, Tasmania.
• Schismope carinata Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [119, pl. 8, fig. 6] [junior homonym of Schismope carinata Adams, 1862].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, New South Wales.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [600]

Generic Combinations

• Schismope atkinsoni (Tenison-Woods, 1877). —
  Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. Census, with brief descriptions of the marine shells of Tasmania and the adjacent islands. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1877: 26-57 [43]
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [30]
• Sinezona atkinsoni (Tenison-Woods, 1877). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [46]
• Sukashitrochus atkinsoni (Tenison-Woods, 1877). —
  Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120 [53-54, pl. 18, figs. 5-8]
  Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [46-55, figs 25-27, 32A]
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [600]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australia, more common in temperate waters

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Algae, continental shelf, marine, under stones.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [42-43, fig. 12]

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [53-54, figs 43-45]

Vafiadis, P. 2010. The living morphology of the marine snails Incisura remota (Iredale, 1924) and Sukashitrochus atkinsoni (Tenison Woods, 1877) (Vetigastropoda: Scissurellidae). The Victorian Naturalist 127(6): 255-265 [260-265, figs 4-9]

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [116] (Atkinson Slit Shell)

History of changes

• Schismope morleti Crosse, J.H. 1880. Desvription de mollusques inédits, provenant de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et de la Nouvelle Bretagne. Journal de Conchyliologie 28: 142-149, pl. 4 [144-146, Pl. 4, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, New Caledonia, intertidal sands.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Geiger, D.L. 2006. Eight new species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from around the world, with discussion of two new senior synonyms. Zootaxa 1128: 1-33 [23].
• Sukashitrochus simplex Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120 [52-53, pl. 18, figs 2-4].
• Sukashitrochus indonesicus Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120 [51-52, pl. 17, figs. 7-8].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [632]

Generic Combinations

• Sukashitrochus morleti (Crosse, 1880). —
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [632]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Sukashitrochus indonesicus [misidentification - shell is Sukashitrochus morleti]. —
  Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [Fig. 28C]
• Sinezona carinata [misidentification - is Sukashitrochus morleti]. —
  Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [54, figs. 49-51]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Malayan Archipelago to central Pacific, including northern Australia

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, muddy sand, subtidal.

General References

Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [55-58, figs 28, 32B]

History of changes

• Schismope pulchra Petterd, W. 1884. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Journal of Conchology 4: 135-145 [139].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NW Tasmania.

Generic Combinations

• Sukashitrochus pulcher (Petterd, 1884). —
  Geiger, D.L. & Jansen, P. 2004. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72 [58-62, figs 29-31, 32C]
  Geiger, D.L. 2012. Monograph of the Little Slit Shells. Santa Barbara : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vol. 1 pp. 1-728. [Date published 30 October 2012] [646]
• Sinezona pulchra (Petterd, 1884). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [46]
• Scissurella pulchra (Petterd, 1884). —
  Richmond, M.H. 1992. Tasmanian Sea Shells Volume 2. Devonport : Richmond Printers 111 pp. [13, fig. 2]

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Temperate Australia, Queensland, Japan.

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Algae, continental shelf, intertidal, marine, rocks, shallow subtidal.

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [43-44, fig. 14]

Jansen, P. 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia 31(291): 47-55 [55, figs 61-63]

Common Name References

Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [43] (Beautiful Slit Shell)

History of changes