Species Terenolla pygmaea (Hinds, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebra pygmaea 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:

   Lectotype (Type lost. Hinds' figure 112 on plate 45 from Sowerby (1844) is designated by Bratcher & Cernohorsky (1987) as the illustrated lectotype), "Straits of Malacca, Indonesia. 17 fms".

  Subsequent designation 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. [214].
• Turbonilla princeps Preston, H.B. 1905. Descriptions of new species of marine shells from Ceylon. Journal of Malacology 12(1): 1-8 [7].

 

Generic Combinations

• Terenolla pygmaea (Hinds, 1844). —
  Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31 [29 June 1929] [282]
  Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [30, pls 30, 62]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific. LHI (C.377232), Coral Sea (C.355453) and Cocos (Keeling) records based on specimens in the Australian Museum reference collection

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Between coral patches and on coral slopes

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Terenolla pygmaea (Hinds, 1844). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Terebridae/Pages/Terenolla_pygmaea.htm (date accessed 8/12/2011)

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. [214, pl. 67, figs 263a-b]

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. [403]

Rosenberg, G. & Bouchet, P. 2012. Terenolla pygmaea (Hinds, 1844). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217092 (Accessed on 24 Apr 2017)

Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [30, pl. 37, figs 8-9, pl. 62]

Terryn, Y. & M. Holford 2008. The Terebridae of Vanuatu with a revision of the genus "Granuliterebra" Oyama, 1961. Visaya supplement 3: 1-118 [55, text fig. pl. 18, figs 1-2]

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

Willan, R.C. 2005. The molluscan fauna from the emergent reefs of the northernmost Sahul Shelf, Timor Sea - Ashmore, Cartier, Hibernia Reefs; biodiversity and zoogeography. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Supplement 1: 51-81

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [222, text fig.]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	24-Apr-2017	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED