Species Sabinella munita (Hedley, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eulima munita Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [358, text fig. 61].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.16323 dry, sticky mud and shell, 5.5-7.5 mls north east of Cape Three Points, New South Wales, Australia [33°31'15.6"S, 151°34'51.6"E].
• Eulima expansilabra May, W.L. 1910. New marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 48: 380-398 [Date published 1911] [397, pl. 15, fig. 26].

 

Generic Combinations

• Sabinella munita (Hedley, 1903). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [289, text fig.]
• Eulimoda munita (Hedley, 1903). —
  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 [53]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Parasitic on the sea urchin Goniocidaris tubaria

 

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. [374]

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 [53]

Warén, A. 1984. A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies (Supplement) 13: 1-96 [Date published 27 February, 1984] [71]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [289]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EULIMOIDEA	13-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		25-Jan-2012	MODIFIED