Species Unedogemmula unedo (Kiener, 1839)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pleurotoma unedo Kiener, L.C. 1839-1840. Genre Pleurotome (Pleurotoma Lam.). 1-84, pls 1-27 in Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau Vol. 5. [19, pl. 14, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, "mers de l'Inde.".
• Turris invicta Melvill, J.C. 1910. Descriptions of twenty-nine species of marine mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, mostly collected by Mr. F.W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: pl.1-2 [15, pl. 2, fig. 27].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH.

 

Generic Combinations

• Turris unedo (Kiener, 1839). —
  Hirase, S. & Taki, I. 1951. A handbook of illustrated shells in natural colors from the Japanese Islands and adjacent territories. Tokyo : Bunkyokaku xxiv, 134 pp. [pl. 115, fig. 2]
• Gemmula unedo (Kiener, 1839). —
  Kira, T. 1954. Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 1 viii 172 pp. 67 pls, 24. [pl. 35, fig. 17]
• Unedogemmula unedo (Kiener, 1839). —
  MacNeil, F.S. 1960. Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 339: i-iv, 1-148, 19 pls [101]
• Gemmula (Unedogemmula) unedo (Kiener, 1839). —
  Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346 [269, pl. 175, figs 1, 6; pl. 208, figs 1, 2]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mud-silt, sand, shell.

Extra Ecological Information

75-500 m

 

General References

Garrard, T.A. 1961. Mollusca collected by M. V. "Challenger" off the east coast of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 3–38 [32, pl. 1, fig. 7]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [60, fig. 7]

Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346 [269, pl. 175, figs 1, 6; pl. 208, figs 1, 2]

Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1–6 [4]

Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma. pls 1–18 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1. [pl. 2, fig. 12]

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 [17]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [1037]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [192, pl. 38, fig. 8; pl. 39, fig. 2]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	05-Dec-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		14-Nov-2011	MOVED
01-Jun-2021		07-Nov-2011	MOVED
		04-Nov-2011	MODIFIED