Family TRIMUSCULIDAE J.Q. Burch, 1945
Introduction
A family of marine pulmonates with cap-shaped shells with a apex pointed posteriorly and often eroded.
A single species is known from Australia.
A general account of the family (Hubendick 1946) , a detailed review of some South American species (Schumann 1911) have been presented and Yonge (1958) recorded data on the Californian Trimusculus reticulatus.
Trimusculids have reduced tentacles with eyes at their bases, the siphon furrow is located on the right side of the shell and they lack a jaw.
They live in the intertidal and the Australian species occurs on exposed rocky shores of eastern and southern Australia.
General References
Haven, N. 1973. Reproduction, development and feeding of the Australian marine pulmonate, Trimusculus (Gadinia) conica. Veliger 16: 61-65
Hubendick, B. 1946. Systematic monograph of the Patelliformia. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 23: 1-93
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]
Schumann, W. 1911. Über die Anatomie und die systematische Stellung von Gadinia peruviana Sowerby und Gadinia garnoti Payraudeau. Zoologische Jahrbücher Supplement 13. Fauna Chilensis 4: 1-88
Stanisic, J. 1998. Superfamily Trimusculoidea. pp. 1078-1079 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234.
Walsby, J.R. 1975. Feeding and the radula in the Marine Pulmonate Limpet Trimusculus reticulatus. Veliger 18: 139-145 [Date published October 1]
Yonge, C.M. 1958. Observations in life of the pulmonate limpet Trimusculus (Gadinia) reticulatus (Sowerby). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 33: 31-37
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