Species Vanikoro sigaretiformis (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Velutina sigaretiformis Potiez, V.L.V. & Michaud, A.L.G. 1838. Galerie des mollusques ou catalogue méthodique, descriptif et raisonné des Mollusques et Coquilles du Muséum de Douai. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 1 560 pp. [508, pl. 35, fig. 6].
• Vanicoro recluziana Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii [424].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, New South Wales, under stones, low water.

Generic Combinations

• Vanikoro sigaretiformis (Potiez & Michaud, 1838). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [162, text fig.]
• Merria sigaretiformis (Potiez & Michaud, 1838). —
  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 [49, sp. 968]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, under stones.

General References

Beechey, D. 2007. Vanikoro sigaretiformis (Potiez & Michaud, 1838). The seashells of New South Wales. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Vanikoridae/Pages/Vanikoro_sigaretiformis.htm (date accessed 23/02/2012)

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 [49]

Récluz, C.A. 1845. Monographie du genre Narica. Magasin de Zoologie 2(7): 1-72, pls 117-135 [55-57, pl. 132, fig. 3]

Smith, E.A. 1908. The known Recent species of Vanikoro Quoy and Gaimard. Proceedings of the Malacological Society 8: 104-117 [112-113]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [162, text fig.]

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