Species Terebra argus Hinds, 1844
- 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
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
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) |
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01-Jun-2021 | CONOIDEA | 14-Feb-2012 | MODIFIED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
10-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED |