Species Vexillum (Costellaria) stainforthii (Reeve, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra stainforthi Reeve, L.A. 1842. Mr. Lovell Reeve exhibited a beautiful new species of Mitra, a genus of pectinibranchiate mollusks, of the family Columellata, which he characterized as follows. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 9: 93-94 [93].

 

Generic Combinations

• Vexillum (Costellaria) stainforthii (Reeve, 1842). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [166]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

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 [55]

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [108]

Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 4. Of Sea and Shore 23(2): 70-84 [77]

Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51 [46]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [166, pl. 35, fig. 12]

 

History of changes

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