Species Laevistrombus vanikorensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834

Museums

Regional Maps

• Strombus vanikorensis Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1834. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu Zoologie Vol. 3 366 pp. [73, pl. 51, figs 7-9].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHNP MNHN-IM-2000-32459 1 specimen, Vanikoro Island, Solomon Islands.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHNP MNHN-IM-2000-32459 1 specimen, same as Lectotype;
  Syntype(s) MNHNP, Vanikoro.

  Type locality references:

  Abbott, R.T. 1960. The genus Strombus in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(2): 33-146 [49].

  Secondary source:

   Abbott, R.T. 1960. The genus Strombus in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(2): 33-146 [49].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Maxwel et al. (2019) report the species as common from Cape York south to Dingo Beach, QLD, while consider dubious the record from Long Bay, Sydney (Beechey 2007).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Abbott, R.T. 1960. The genus Strombus in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(2): 33-146 [48-49]

Beechey, D. 2007. Strombus canarium Linnaeus, 1758. The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Strombidae/Pages/Strombus_canarium.htm (date accessed 23/7/2012)

Raven, H 2002. Notes on molluscs from NW Borneo. 1. Stromboidea (Gastropoda, Strombidae, Rostellariidae, Seraphidae). Vita Malacologica 1: 3-32 [18, pl. 8, figs 42-43] (as Strombus canarium)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [158, pl. 21, figs 2a-b] (as Strombus canarium)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	21-Feb-2019	ADDED