Genus Rhinoclavis Swainson, 1840

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clava Martyn, T. 1784. The universal conchologist : exhibiting the figure of every known shell accurately drawn and painted after nature, with a new systematic arrangement / by the author, Thomas Martyn = Le conchologiste universel, montrant la figure de chaque coquille aujourd'hui connue soigneusement dessinee, et peinte d'apres nature, le tout arrange selon le systeme de l'auteur. London : Thomas Martyn 4 vols. 39 pp. 160 pls. [12-13] [non binomial].
• Vertagus Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [227-228] [junior homonym; not Vertagus Klein, 1753].
• Rhinoclavis Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840] [157, 315].

  Type species:

   Murex vertagus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation (Herrmannsen, 1848, Indicis generum malacozoorum primordia, 2: 392).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from east Africa to New Caledonia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Houbrick, R.S. 1978. The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 1: 1-130 [30-35]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [123]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIIDAE	16-Feb-2012	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		27-Sep-2011	MODIFIED