Genus Terebralia Swainson, 1840

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebralia Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [315].

  Type species:

   Strombus palustris Linnaeus, 1767 by subsequent designation, see Cossmann, M. 1906. Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Paris : Cossmann Vol. 7 261 pp. [124].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from east Africa

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Reid, D.G., Dyal, P., Lozouet, P., Glaubrecht, M. & Williams, S.T. 2008. Mudwhelks and mangroves: The evolutionary history of an ecological association (Gastropoda: Potamididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 680-699 [680-695]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [133]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	POTAMIDIDAE	27-Jan-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		11-Oct-2011	MODIFIED