Species Siphonaria atra Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

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Species Siphonaria atra Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Siphonaria atra Quoy, J. M. C. & Gaimard, J. P. 1833. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie 2. Paris : J. Tastu pp. 321-686. [337-338, pl. 25, figs. 41-42].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown not located (possibly MNHP), Vanikoro.
Mestosiphon eumelas Iredale, T. 1940. Marine molluscs from Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Australia, and New Caledonia. The Australian Zoologist 9(4): 429-443, pl. 32-34 [Date published 9 December 1940] [439] [pl.34, figs. 5,6].
Type data:
Holotype AM C103711 (as Snapper Point, N QLD), Port Douglas, N QLD.
Paratype(s) AM C140260 15 specimens.
Mallorisiphon oppositus Iredale, T. 1940. Marine molluscs from Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Australia, and New Caledonia. The Australian Zoologist 9(4): 429-443, pl. 32-34 [Date published 9 December 1940] [440].
Type data:
Holotype AM C103714, Keppel Bay, QLD.
Paratype(s) AM C108527 2 specimens.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Hubendick, B. 1946. Systematic monograph of the Patelliformia. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 23: 1-93 [52]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Not NSW; also Indian and West Pacific Oceans.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria, N coast
- Queensland: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
- Western Australia: N coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, rock reef.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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