Species Drupa ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex ricinus 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. [750].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Asiatic Ocean, restricted to Ceylon.
• Murex hystrix 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. [750].
• Drupa rubuscaesius Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [55].
• Drupa tribulus Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [55].
• Sistrum album Montfort, P.D. de 1810. Conchyliologie Systematique, et Classification Methodique des Coquilles. Paris : F. Schoell Tome 2 676 + 16 pp. [595].
• Ricinula arachnoides Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. pp. 1-16 in Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Paris : Agasse Part 23 pp. 1-16, pls 391-488. [1, pl. 395, figs 3a-b].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG 11-1/15/4, locality unknown.
• Drupa rubus-cestus Dall, W.H. 1915. Index Museum Boltenianum. Smithsonian Institution. Publications 2360: 1-64 [29].

 

Generic Combinations

• Sistrum ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Steele, P.H. 1957. Easter Island shells. Nautilus 70(4): 111-113 [112]
• Drupa ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1971. Marine shells of the Pacific. Sydney : Pacific Publications 248 pp., 21 figs, 60 pls. [132, pl. 29, fig. 177]
• Drupa (Drupa) ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [41, pl. 5, figs 3a-d]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from East Africa to Easter Island and the Galapagos Islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Kenn Transition (16), Northeast Province (18), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine, reef flat, rocks.

 

General References

Abbott, R.T. 1950. The Molluscan Fauna of the Cocos-Keeling Islands, Indian Ocean. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 22: 68-98 [80]

Emerson, W.K. & Cernohorsky, W.O. 1973. The genus Drupa in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(13): 1-40 [19, pl. 2, figs 6-8, pls 14-16]

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. [241, fig. 86B]

Middelfart, P. 1997. An illustrated checklist of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 17(2): 349-388 [372, pl. 4, fig. 10]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [41, pl. 5, figs 3a-d]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [92, pl. 61, figs 3-3a]

 

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. [147, fig. 10] (Spider-like Or White-lipped Castor Bean)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [149, pl. 450] (White-Toothed Drupe)

Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Ricinula. pls 1-6 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [s 5] (as Ricinula arachoides) (The Spider-like Ricinula)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [136, pl. 137] (Prickly Drupe)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	13-Nov-2014	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		11-Oct-2011	MODIFIED