Species Hastula albula (Menke, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebra albula Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana. Hannoverae : Libraria Aulica Hahniana pp. 1-46. [Apr. 1843]. [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype "Western shores of New Holland, Western Australia".
• Terebra casta 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 [156].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1968242, "Ilo-Ilo Is, Panay, Philippines".
• Terebra mera 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 [158].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, type lost, "Straits of Malacca".
• Terebra incolor Deshayes, G.P. 1859. A general review of the genus Terebra and a description of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 27: 270-321 [283].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 197996, "Philippine Islands".
• Terebra bipartita Deshayes, G.P. 1859. A general review of the genus Terebra and a description of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 27: 270-321 [284].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 197981, "Hawaiian Islands".
• Terebra medipacifica Pilsbry, H.A. 1921. Marine Mollusks of Hawaii VIII-XIII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 72: 296-328 [308, pl. 12, figs. 8-10].

  Type data:

   Holotype 117039, off Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Terebra medipacifica melior Pilsbry, H.A. 1921. Marine Mollusks of Hawaii VIII-XIII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 72: 296-328 [308, pl. 12, fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype 117021, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii.

 

Generic Combinations

• Hastula (Hastula) albula (Menke, 1843). —
  Burch, R.D. 1965. New Terebrid species from the Indo-Pacific Ocean and from the Gulf of Mexico, with new locality records and provisional list of species collected in Western Australia and at Sabah, Malaysia (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Veliger 7(4): 241-253, pl. 31 [252]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific. Coral Sea (e.g. C.355542), LHI (e.g. C.355541), Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island records based on specimens in the Australian Museum reference collection

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), 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, intertidal, marine, sand bottom marine.

 

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. [180]

Burch, R.D. 1965. New Terebrid species from the Indo-Pacific Ocean and from the Gulf of Mexico, with new locality records and provisional list of species collected in Western Australia and at Sabah, Malaysia (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Veliger 7(4): 241-253, pl. 31 [252]

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.

Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [17, pls 13, 52]

Terryn, Y. & M. Holford 2008. The Terebridae of Vanuatu with a revision of the genus "Granuliterebra" Oyama, 1961. Visaya supplement 3: 1-118 [27, text fig., pl. 5, figs 2-4]

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

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. [220] (pl. 53, fig. 20)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	11-Jan-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		07-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED