Species Typhis (Typhis) phillipensis Watson, 1883

Museums

Regional Maps

• Typhis phillipensis Watson, R.B. 1883. Mollusca of the 'Challenger' Expedition:- Part XV. Fams. Ranellacea, Muricidae, Scalariidae and Solariidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 16: 594-623 [605-606].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, St. 161, 38 fathoms, sand, Victoria, off entrance to Port Phillip, Melbourne [38°22'30''S, 144°36'30''E].
• Typhis cleryi Sowerby, G.B. 1866. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : G.B. Sowerby Vol. 3 277-331 pls 266-290. [320, pl. 284, fig. 14] [junior homonym; not Murex (Typhis) cleryi Petit, 1840].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off the entrance to Port Phillip, Melbourne, 33 fathoms.
• Typhis philippensis Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [162, pl. 10, fig. 4] [subsequent misspelling].
• Typhis phillipensis Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [382] [emendation; unnecessary].
• Typhis philippensis interpres Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [272, pl. 34, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.56841 dry, Disaster Bay, New South Wales, Australia [37°16'1.2'S, 149°58'1.2'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [55] (synonymy of T. p. interpres)

Generic Combinations

• Typhina philippensis (Watson, 1886). —
  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. [143]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• philippensis [species epithet has been regularly misspelt throughout literature. Correct original spelling (Watson, 1883) is phillipensis (for Port Phillip, Melbourne)(original paper seen). Watson subsequently misspelt his own species in his 1886 publication. Hedley, 1903 published an unnecessary emendation, as he overlooked Watson's original 1883 description. Other authors appear to have overlooked both Watson, 1883 and Hedley, 1903 and have also subsequently misspelt this name].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Typhis philippensis Watson, 1886. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Typhinae/Pages/typhis_philippensis.htm (date accessed 28/10/11)

Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [382]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [175, fig. 209]

Radwin, G. & D'Atillio, A. 1976. Murex shells of the world, an illustrated guide to the Muricidae. Stanford : Stanford University Press 1-284, 32 pls, 192 text figs. [209, pl. 32, fig. 7]

Watson, R.B. 1883. Mollusca of the 'Challenger' Expedition:- Part XV. Fams. Ranellacea, Muricidae, Scalariidae and Solariidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 16: 594-623 [605-606]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [55, pl. 6, figs 4a-b]

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. [88, pl. 59, figs 10-10a]

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. [143] (Smoke Shell)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [175] (Short-spined Typhis)

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