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Species Tutufa rubeta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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

Continental shelf, coral reef, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

 

General 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. [115, pl. 18, fig. 14] (as B. ponderosa)

Altena, C.O. van Regteren 1942. The marine mollusca of the Kendeng beds (East Java). Gastropoda Part 4 (families Cassididae-Ficidae inclusive). Leidsche Geologische Mededelingen 13: 89-120 [108]

Beu, A.G. 1981. Australian gastropods of the family Bursidae. Part 1. The families of Tonnacea, the genera of Bursidae, and revision of species previously assigned to Tutufa Jousseaume, 1881. Records of the Australian Museum 5 33: 248-324, figs 1-22 [280, figs 1b, c, e, j, k; 3; 4g-i; 5d, e; 7; 9c; 12b-e; 14d]

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [178, figs 55b, 56a, 57b, d-e]

Hedley, C. 1916. Further Notes on Bursa rubeta L. Journal of Conchology 2 15: 41-42 [41]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [14, pl. 7, fig. 2]

Ladd, H.S. 1982. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; gastropods (Eulimidae and Volutidae through Terebridae). United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 1171: i-iv, pls 1-20 [42, pl. 8, figs 4, 5]

Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls [144, pl. 12, fig. 5]

Smith, E.A. 1914. Note on Bursa (Tutufa) rubeta (Bolton) = Triton lampas (Lamarck et auct.). Journal of Conchology 14: 226-231, pl. 4 [228, pl. 4, figs 1-6]

Tantanasiriwong, R. 1978. An illustrated checklist of marine shelled gastropods from Phuket Island, adjacent mainland and offshore islands, Western Peninsula, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 21: 1-22, 259 figs [12]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [228, pl. 43, fig. 18]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021 TONNOIDEA 28-Mar-2012 MODIFIED Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
08-Mar-2012 MODIFIED