Species Vexillum (Costellaria) fidicula (Gould, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra fidicula Gould, A.A. 1850. Shells collected by the United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 169-172 [170].
• Mitra dunkeri Jickeli, C.F. 1874. Studien über die Conchylien des Rothen Meeres. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 1: 17-54 [41].
• Mitra (Costellaria) deshayesi nigricans Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(2): 179-259 [201] [as Mitra (Costellaria) deshayesi var. nigricans Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1923].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Buijse, J.A., Dekker, H. & Verbinnen, G. 2009. The identities of Mitra fidicula Gould, 1850, Mitra michaui Crosse & Fischer, 1864 and Mitra intertaeniata G.B. Sowerby II, 1874, with the description of a new Vexillum species (Gastropoda: Costellariidae). Visaya 2(4): 16-51 [25] (see reference for synonymy and bibliography)

 

Generic Combinations

• Vexillum (Costellaria) fidicula (Reeve, 1844). —
  Buijse, J.A., Dekker, H. & Verbinnen, G. 2009. The identities of Mitra fidicula Gould, 1850, Mitra michaui Crosse & Fischer, 1864 and Mitra intertaeniata G.B. Sowerby II, 1874, with the description of a new Vexillum species (Gastropoda: Costellariidae). Visaya 2(4): 16-51 [25]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Vexillum (Costellaria) deshayesii (Reeve, 1844) [misidentification]. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [163]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand.

 

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. [6]

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]

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

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [340]

Smith, E.A. 1876. A list of marine shells, chiefly from the Solomon Islands, with descriptions of several new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 12: 535–562, pl. 30 [549]

Smith, E.A. 1903. Marine Mollusca. (pp. 589-630, pls. XXXV-XXXVI) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : University Press Vol. II(Part II) pp. 589–698, pls. XXXV-XLVIII). [605]

Turner, H. 1989. Ungewöhnliche und neue Mitroidea aus dem Indopazifik. Teil 1. Club Conchylia Informationen 21(5/6): 30-62

Wils, E. & Verbinnen, G. 2002. Red Sea Mollusca: Part 12. Class Gastropoda; Family: Costellariidae. Gloria Maris 41(1-2): 29-37 [29]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [163, text fig and pl. 36, figs 15a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	COSTELLARIIDAE	05-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Nov-2011	MODIFIED