Species Terebra babylonia Lamarck, 1822

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebra babylonia Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [187].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG 1102/2/1, "none originally given. Samar, Philippines, is here designated as the type locality".
• Terebra striata 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:

   Holotype 1874.10.11.3.

 

Generic Combinations

• Dimidacus babylonia (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Oyama, K. 1960. On some new facts of the taxonomy of Terebridae. Venus 21(2): 176-189 [187]
• Terebra (Dimidacus) babylonia Lamarck, 1822. —
  Shikama, T. 1964. Selected shells of the world illustrated in colours. Tokyo : Hokuryu-Kan Vol. 2 pp. 1-212. [125, pl. 101, fig. 14]
• Terebra (Perirhoe) babylonia Lamarck, 1822. —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. & Jennings, A. 1966. The Terebridae of Fiji (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Veliger 9(1): 37-66, pls 4-7 [50, pl. 5, fig. 25]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to French Polynesia and Hawaiian Islands. Coral Sea (e.g. C.153044), Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island records based on specimens in the Australian Museum reference collection

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northeast Province (18), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand bottom marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Between coral patches and on coral slopes

 

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. [57-58]

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. [30, pls 20, 55]

Terryn, Y. & M. Holford 2008. The Terebridae of Vanuatu with a revision of the genus "Granuliterebra" Oyama, 1961. Visaya supplement 3: 1-118 [56, text fig., pl. 14, figs 5-8]

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. [223, pl. 51, fig. 4]

 

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