Species Vexillum (Costellaria) festum (Reeve, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra festa Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 28-39 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 2. [imprint date 1843] [pl. 36, fig. 303].
• Turricula bancalanensis Bartsch, P. 1918. New marine mollusks from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 31: 181-188 [186].

 

Generic Combinations

• Vexillum (Costellaria) festum (Reeve, 1845). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [164]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific; Abrolhos, WA, Australia (Wilson, 1994). Lord Howe Shelf (AMS C.230276)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Southwest Shelf Transition (30)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand, shell, subtidal.

 

General References

Arnaud, J.P., Berthault, C., Jeanpierre, R., Martin, J.C. & Martin, P. 2002. Costellariidae et Mitridae de Nouvelle Calédonie. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie. Supplément 100: 52 pp. [7]

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 [55]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [114]

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [50]

Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 2. Of Sea and Shore 22(4): 221-235 [225]

Salisbury, R.A. 1999. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 1. Of Sea and Shore 22(3): 124-136 [129]

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 [16]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [164, text fig.]

 

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)
		16-Nov-2011	MODIFIED