Species Thala exilis (Reeve, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra exilis Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 28-39 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 2. [imprint date 1843] [pl. 37, fig. 313].
• Mitra jaculanda Gould, A.A. 1860. Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 323-340 [332].
• Mitra adumbrata Souverbie, S.M. 1876. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 24: 376-381 [379, pl. 13, fig. 6].
• Thala ogasawarana Pilsbry, H.A. 1904. New Japanese marine Mollusca: Gastropoda. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 56: 3-37, pls 1-6 [13, pl. 3, fig. 22].
• Thala ceylanica Preston, H.B. 1904. Descriptions of some new species of Cingalese and Indian marine shells. Journal of Malacology 11: 75-78, pls 6-7 [76, pl. 6, fig. 1,2].
• Mitra (Vulpecula) illecebra Melvill, J.C. 1927. Descriptions of eight new species of the family Turridae and of a new species of Mitra. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 17: 149-155, pl. 12 [155, pl. 12, fig. 9].

 

Generic Combinations

• Thala exilis (Reeve, 1845). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [161, text fig]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

 

General References

Arnaud, J.P., Berthault, C., Jeanpierre, R., Martin, J.C. & Martin, P. 2002. Costellariidae et Mitridae de Nouvelle Calédonie. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie. Supplément 100: 52 pp. [7]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190 [58]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [118]

Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(1): 83-159 [155,157]

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [106]

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. [315]

Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 2. Of Sea and Shore 22(4): 221-235 [225]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [161, text fig.]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	COSTELLARIIDAE	08-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Jul-2014	MODIFIED