Species Truncatella guerinii Villa & Villa, 1841

Museums

Regional Maps

• Truncatella guerinii Villa, A. & Villa, J.B. 1841. Dispositio Systematica Conchyliarum Terrestrium et Fluviatilium quae adservantur in collectione fratrum Ant. et Jo. Bapt. Villa, conspectu abnormitatum novarumque specierum descriptionibus adjectis. Mediolani : Borroni et Scotti 62 pp. [59].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCZ, Bourbon, Réunion Is., Indian Ocean.
• Truncatella valida Pfeiffer, L. 1846. Monographische Versuch über die Gattung Truncatella Risso. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 3(12): 182 [182].
• Truncatella yorkensis Cox, J.C. 1868. A Monograph of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : Maddock 111 pp. [93].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ, Cape York, QLD.
• Truncatella ferruginea Cox, J.C. 1868. A Monograph of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : Maddock 111 pp. [94].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Cape York, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Deposit feeding, marine, salt marsh, supratidal.

 

General References

Clench, W.J. & Turner, T. 1948. A catalogue of the family Truncatellidae with notes and descriptions of new species. Occasional Papers on Mollusks, Harvard 1(13): 157-212 [167]

Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [109]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [152] (as Truncatella yorkensis Cox, 1868)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TRUNCATELLOIDEA	09-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED