Species Myurella undulata (Gray, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebra undulata Gray, J.E. 1834. Enumeration of the species of the genus Terebra. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1834: 59-63 [60].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1874.11.10.5 33.6 mm shell, No locality originally given. Suva Reef, Fiji Is., designated as the type locality by Bratcher & Cernohorsky, 1987.
• Terebra laevior Schepman, M.M. 1913. Toxoglossa. pp. 384–396 in Weber, M. & de Beaufort, L.F. (eds). The Prosobranchia, Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia Tectibranchiata, Tribe Bullomorpha, of the Siboga Expedition. Monograph 49. Siboga Expeditie 32(2) [373].

  Type data:

   Holotype UZM 17.0 mm shell, "Banda, Indonesia".

 

Generic Combinations

• Terebra (Decorihastula) undulata Gray, 1834. —
  Shikama, T. 1964. Selected shells of the world illustrated in colours. Tokyo : Hokuryu-Kan Vol. 2 pp. 1-212. [125, fig. 2]
• Myurella undulata (Gray, 1834). —
  Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [25, pls 26, 44, 57]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaii. LHI (e.g. C.355449), Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island records based on specimens in the Australian Museum reference collection

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand bottom marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Between coral patches

 

General References

Bratcher, T. & Cernohorsky, W.O. 1987. Living Terebras of the World. A Monograph of the Recent Terebridae of the World. Melbourne, Florida & Burlington : American Malacologists Inc. 240 pp. [83, pl. 19, figs 69a-b, Color pl. D, fig. 16] (as Terebra undulata)

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [402-403]

Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [25, pl. 26, figs 16-20, pls 44, 57]

Terryn, Y. 2009. Myurella undulata (Gray, 1834). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=438749 (Accessed on 19 Apr 2017)

Terryn, Y. & M. Holford 2008. The Terebridae of Vanuatu with a revision of the genus "Granuliterebra" Oyama, 1961. Visaya supplement 3: 1-118 [43, text fig., pl. 10, figs 6-20]

Wells, F.E. 1994. Marine Molluscs of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin (No. 410): 1-22

Wells, F.F., Bryce, C.W., Clark, J.E. & Hansen, G.M. 1990. Christmas Shells. The marine molluscs of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Christmas Island: Australia : Christmas Island Natural History Association 98 pp., pls 1-81.

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [229, pl. 51, fig. 8]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	19-Apr-2017	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED