Species Terebra argus Hinds, 1844

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebra nebulosa Kiener, L.C. 1838-1839. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Ballière Vol. 3 pp. 1-120. [23, pl.10, fig.22].
• Terebra argus Hinds, R.B. 1844. Descriptions of new shells, collected during the voyage of the Sulphur, and in the Mr. Cumings late visit to the Philippines. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 11: pls 41-55 [160].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1968253, "Tahiti, Society Islands and Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands.".
• Terebra argus brachygyra Pilsbry, H.A. 1921. Marine Mollusks of Hawaii VIII-XIII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 72: 296-328 [304, pl. 12, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype 46913, "off Honolulu, Hawaii".

 

Generic Combinations

• Subula argus (Hinds, 1844). —
  Oyama, K. 1960. On some new facts of the taxonomy of Terebridae. Venus 21(2): 176-189 [186]
• Terebra argus argus Hinds, 1844. —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1967. Marine Shells of the Pacific. Sydney : Pacific Publications 248 pp., 60 pls. [196]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to French Polynesia and Hawaiian Islands. Coral Sea (e.g. C.324776) and Cocos (Keeling) Islands records based on specimens in the Australian Museum reference collection

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, 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. [42]

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. [393]

Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [28, pls 5, 50]

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

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [223, pl. 51, fig. 6]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	14-Feb-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED