Species Veprecula vepratica (Hedley, 1903)

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• Pleurotoma vepratica 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] [384, fig. 97].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.16447 dry, mud and pebbles, 5-8 ml off Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia [-35°29'38.4'S,151°0'54'E].

Generic Combinations

• Veprecula vepratica (Hedley, 1903). —
  Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [331]
• Clathurina (Veprecula) vepratica (Hedley, 1903). —
  Melvill, J.C. 1917. A revision of the Turridae (Pleurotomidae) occuring in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea as evidenced mostly through the results of dredgings carried out by Mr. F.W. Townsend, 1893-1914. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 12(4-5): 140-201 [140]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

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

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [331, text fig. 9]

Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12. [48, pl. 12, figs 248-250]

Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23 [126]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [1053-1054]

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