Species Terebra polygyrata Deshayes, 1859

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• Terebra polygyrata 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 [301].

  Type data:

   Holotype 1912.9.17.28, "Philippine Is.".
• Terebra ambrosia Melvill, J.C. 1912. Descriptions of thirty-three new species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 10: 240-254 [250].

  Type data:

   Lectotype 1912.9.17.28, "Charbar, Mekran Coast, 5 fms".

 

Introduction

G. Malcolm (pers. comm. 2013) has indicated that the figure of this species given by Wilson (1994, pl. 53, fig. 5) is not close to the type.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Gulf of Oman to Fiji

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

 

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. [104]

Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [34, pls 31, 61] (considers this species endemic to the Philippines, without comment of records outside the Philippines)

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [228, pl. 53, fig. 5]

 

History of changes

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