Subspecies Tripterotyphis lowei colemani (Ponder, 1972)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pterotyphis (Tripterotyphis) lowei colemani Ponder, W.F. 1972. Notes on some Australian genera and species of the family Muricidae (Neogastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2(3): 215-248 [220, pl. 20, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.77189, Tryon Island, Capricorn Group, Southern Queensland, subtital on reef.

Generic Combinations

• Tripterotyphis lowei colemani (Ponder, 1972). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [54, pl. 6, figs 10a-b]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), 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), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, subtidal, under stones.

General References

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [54, pl. 6, figs 10a-b]

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [145] (Coleman's Typhis)

History of changes