Species Vexillum (Costellaria) albatum Cernohorsky, 1988

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turricula casta Adams, H. 1872. Further descriptions of new species of shells, collected by Robert McAndrew, Esq., in the Red Sea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872: 9-12, pl. 3 [Date published June] [9, pl. 3, fig. 2] [junior homonym; not Mitra casta Lamarck].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH 1872.4.9.9, Red Sea.
• Mitra hastata Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1874. Mongraph of the genus Mitra. 1-46, pls 352-379 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 4. [35, pl. 378, fig. 620, pl. 379, fig. 632] [junior homonym].
• Vexillum albatum Cernohorsky, W.O. 1988. The Mitridae, Costellariidae and Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) recently dredged at Reunion Island, Indian Ocean, with descriptions of new species. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 25: 75-85 [78] [replacement name; for Turricula casta and Mitra hastata)].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west and Central Pacific. Distribution in Australia from AMS collection. North West Shelf (regions 27 C.450695; region 3 C.450688)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine, sand, subtidal.

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. Systematics of the families Mitridae & Volutomitridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 8: 1-190 [54]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [111]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1988. The Mitridae, Costellariidae and Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) recently dredged at Reunion Island, Indian Ocean, with descriptions of new species. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 25: 75-85 [78]

Cotton, B.C. 1957. Family Mitridae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 12: 8 pp. [7]

Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(2): 179-259 [209]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	COSTELLARIIDAE	11-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		09-Nov-2011	MODIFIED