Species Syrinx aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex aruanus Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [275].
• Murex gigas Born, I. von 1778. Testacea musei Caesarei Vindobonensis quae jussu Mariae Theresia Augustae disposuit et descripsit. Vindobonae : J.P. Krauss 442 pp. [9].
• Fusus proboscidiferus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [126].
• Cerithium brazieri Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls. [142, pl. 26, fig. 16].

 

Generic Combinations

• Syrinx aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [59, pl. 12, figs 6a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea, Japan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand flats, subtidal.

 

General References

Blackburn, H. & Green, J. 1976. Marine shells of the Darwin area. Darwin : Museums and Art Galleries Board of the Northern Territory pp. 1-23. [f.54]

Brauer, F. 1878. Bemerkungen über die im kaiserlich zoologischen Museum aufgefundenen Original-Exemplare zu Ign. v. Born's Testaceis Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 77(1-5): 117-192 [171]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [14]

McMichael, D.F. 1960. Shells of the Australian sea-shore. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 127 pp., 287 figs. [Date published December] [106]

Tate, R. 1894. Note on Colina Brazieri, Tryon. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 8(2): 244 [244]

Tokioka, T. 1955. A measurement on protoconhs found in the egg capsules of Syrinx proboscidiferus. Venus 18(4): 278-282 [278]

Tryon, G.W. 1880-1881. Tritonidae, Fusidae and Buccinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 3 310 pp. [pp. 1-64, pls 1-24, Dec. 31, 1880; pp. 65-128, pls 26-52, Mar. 28, 1881; pp. 129-192, pls 53-79, Jun. 6, 1881; pp. 193-310, pls 80-87, Oct. 3, 1881] [52]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [59, pl. 12, figs 6a-b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [22, pl. 36] (False Trumpet Shell)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [140, pl. 141] (Australian Giant Conch)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	15-Aug-2013	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Aug-2013	MODIFIED