Species Siphonaria diemenensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Museums

Regional Maps

• Siphonaria diemenensis 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. [340-341, pl. 25, figs. 19-20].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown not located (possibly MNHP), TAS (as le canal d'Entrecasteaux, à l'île de Van Diémen's Land).
• Siphonaria scabra Reeve, L.A. 1856. Monograph of the genus Siphonaria. In, Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 9. [sp. 2] [pl. 1, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1979168/1 (Port Jackson on the label), Eastern Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1979168/2-4 3 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Jenkins, B.W. 1983. Redescriptions and relationship of Siphonaria zelandica Quoy and Gaimard to S. australis Quoy and Gaimard with a description of S. propria sp. nov. (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Siphonariidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 6: 1-35 [11].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hubendick, B. 1946. Systematic monograph of the Patelliformia. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 23: 1-93 [38]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Sydney, NSW, around southern Australia to Ceduna, SA, including TAS and possibly west to WA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, rock reef.

 

General References

Creese, R.G. 1980. Reproductive cycles and fecundities of two species of Siphonaria (Mollusca, Pulmonata) in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 31: 37-47

Quinn, G.P. 1988. Ecology of the intertidal pulmonate limpet Siphonaria diemensis Quoy et Gaimard. I. Population dynamics and availability of food. Journal of Experimental Zoology 117: 115-136

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2020	Siphonaria Sowerby, 1824	01-Jun-2020	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)