Species Scabricola (Scabricola) variegata (Gmelin, 1791)

• Voluta variegata Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3457].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Burias Island, Philippines.
• Mitra serpentina Lamarck, J.P.B.A de M. 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de mollusques testacés, Mitre (Mitra). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 17: 54-80, 195-222 [204].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1107/100, Indian Ocean.
• Mitra marquesana Adams, A. 1853. Descriptions of several new species of Murex, Rissoina, Planaxis, and Eulima from the Cummingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 267-272 [270].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH BMNH no. 1967809, Marquesas Islands.

 

Generic Combinations

• Scabricola (Scabricola) variegata (Gmelin, 1791).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Philippines, Marquesas (Iles Marquises), Western Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Indonesia, Society Islands (Îles de la Société), Tuamotu Archipelago (Iles Tuamotu); Philippines to N.E. Australia and the Marquesas Islands (Cernohorsky 1991), Indo-West Pacific; Torres Strait and Coral Sea (Wilson 1994); Coral Sea region 18 (AMS C.315162)

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Usually in coral sand, to a depth of 46 m.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [101]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1991. The Mitridae of the World. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4: 1-164 [115]

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [199]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [155]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MITRIDAE	31-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED