Species Typhis (Typhis) wellsi Houart, 1985

Museums

Regional Maps

• Typhis (Typhis) wellsi Houart, R. 1985. Description of two new muricacean species (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Sri Lanka and Western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 7(1-2): 89-93 [90, pl. 2, figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 3076-83, 114 nautical miles north of Port Hedland, Western Australia, 201 m.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 200 m

 

General References

Houart, R. 1994. Illustrated Catalogue of Recent Species of Muricidae named since 1971. Weisbaden, Germany : Verlag Christa Hemmen pp. 1-179, pl. 28. [103, fig. 179]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [55]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	12-Oct-2011	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		11-Oct-2011	MODIFIED