Genus Spirula Lamarck, 1801

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Genus Spirula Lamarck, 1801

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2022 - Updated by ABRS

2012 - Updated by Julian Finn, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Spirula Lamarck, J.B. 1801. Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou, tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaus; présentant leurs caractères essentials et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précéde du Discours d'ouverture de l'an VIII de la République. Paris : Déterville viii 432 pp. [102].
Type species:
Nautilus spirula Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.

Introduction

Hoffmann et al. (2021) question whether there are more than one extant species in the genus Spirula. Their geometric morphometric data suggest there are two species in the genus however, noting there are conflicting lines of evidence between molecular and morphological analyses, they do not formally describe a new species. Further study is required to confirm the work of Hoffmann et al. (2021)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)