Species Simnia avena (Sowerby, 1833)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ovulum seminulum Sowerby, G.B. 1828. On the Recent species of the genus Ovulum. Zoological Journal of London 4: 145-162 [157].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1874.12.11.182, "Friendly Islands" [Tonga] [24°00'S, 151°26'E].
• Neosimnia avena Broderip, W.J. & Sowerby, G.B. 1833. New species of shells contained in the collection on the Western Coast of South America and among the islands of South Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1833: 82-87.
• Neosimnia formicaria Allan, J. 1956. Cowry Shells of World Seas. Melbourne : Georgian House 170 pp. [127].

Generic Combinations

• Simnia siminulum (Sowerby, 1828). —
  Paetel 1887. Catalog der Conchylien-Sammlung. I. Die Cephalopoden, Pteropoden und Meeres-Gastropoden. Berlin, Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel. Berlin : Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel pp. 1-16, 1-639. [327]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [92]

Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [100] (considers this to be a synonym of Neosimnia avena)

History of changes