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Species Vexillum (Costellaria) polygonum (Gmelin, 1791)

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand, 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. [10]

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. [108]

Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part 1. Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3(7): 395–488, 49 text figs [Date published March 6] [467]

Melvill, J.C. & Sykes, E.R. 1898. Notes on a collection of marine shells from the Andaman Islands, with descriptions of new forms of Terebra. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3: 35-48, pl. 3 [40]

Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 3. Of Sea and Shore 23(1): 4-14 [4]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [339]

Schepman, M.M. 1911. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 4: Rhachiglossa. pp. 247-364, pls 18-24 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Monograph 49. [284]

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [216]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [165, pl. 35, fig. 18]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021 COSTELLARIIDAE 23-Jan-2012 MODIFIED Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
09-Nov-2011 MODIFIED