Species Colpospira (Ctenocolpus) australis (Lamarck, 1822)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turritella australis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [59].
• Turritella granulifera Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [143].
• Ctenocolpus terebellata Tate, R. 1893. The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17(4): 316-345 [337, pl. 8, fig. 2] [nomen nudum].
• Turritella australis diffidens Iredale, T. 1925. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 14(4): 243-270 [Date published 9 April] [266, pl. 43, fig. 17].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Gabo Island, Victoria.

 

Generic Combinations

• Colpospira (Ctenocolpus) australis (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [138]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Ctenocolpus diffidens auct. —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [47]
• Colpospira australis (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Beechey, D. 2006. Colpospira australis (Lamarck, 1822). http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Turritellidae/Pages/Colpospira_australis.htm

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

The AMS collection has this species from NSW to Tasmania, but not SA. The occurrence in SA may be based on the fossil Turritella terebellata Tate, which is a nomen nudem for a fossil from Muddy Creel, Victoria

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 140 m

 

General References

Garrard, T.A. 1972. A review of the Australian Recent and Tertiary Turritellidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 2(3): 267-338 [305, pl. 28, fig. 3]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [47]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [138]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIOIDEA	23-Oct-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
01-Jun-2021	TURRITELLIDAE	09-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		18-Oct-2011	MODIFIED