Species Terebralia palustris (Linnaeus, 1767)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Strombus palustris Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [213].
• Trochus trisulcatus Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [126].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMUC, Lohaia, Red Sea.
• Strombus agnatus Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3521].
• Cerithium palustre Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [486].

  Type data:

   Lectotype East Indies.
• Cerithium carnaticum Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls. [pl. 35, fig. 3].
• Clava caledonica Jousseaume, F.P. 1884. Description de mollusques nouveaux. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 9: 169–192 [191, pl. 4, fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) New Caledonia.
• Potamides tryoni Kobelt, W. 1895. Die Gattung Cerithium Lam. 161-200, pls 31-36 in Küster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1. [169, pl. 32, fig. 1].

 

Generic Combinations

• Cerithium (Potamides) palustre (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Sowerby, G.B. (ed.) 1854. Thesaurus Conchyliorum or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2 pp. 439-899. [884, pl. 185, fig. 261]
• Potamides (Terebralia) palustris (Bruguiere, 1792). —
  Fischer, P. 1884. Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie Conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivant et fossiles. Paris : F. Savy Vol. 7 pp. 609-688. [581, fig. 447]
• Potamides (Pyrazus) palustris (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Martens, E.C. von 1880. Mollusken. pp. 181-346 in Mobius, K. (ed.). Beitrage zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen. Berlin : Otto Enslin 352 pp. [281]
• Pyrazus palustris (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(IX-XV) pp. 257-484, pls 33-60. [291, pl. 30, figs 8,8a,8b]
• Terebralia palustris (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Cox, L.R. 1927. Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Zanzibar Protectorate. Report on the palaeontology of the Zanzibar Protectorate. pp. 13-102, pls 3-9 [84, pl. 18, fig. 4]
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [134, pl. 15; fig. 18]
• Potamides (Tympanotonus) palustris (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls. [160, pl. 32, figs 41,42]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from East Africa to Philippines

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Brackish water, intertidal flats, mangroves, marine, mud bottom, mud-silt.

 

General References

Houbrick, R.S. 1991. Systematic review and functional morphology of the mangrove snails Terebralia and Telescopium (Potamididae; Prosobranchia). Malacologia 33(1): 289-338 [305]

Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls [81-2]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [134, pl. 15; fig. 18]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [87, pl. 17, fig. 30] (Northern Mud Creeper)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [102] (Giant Mud Creeper)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	POTAMIDIDAE	19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		25-Nov-2013	MODIFIED