Species Vexillum (Costellaria) zebuense (Reeve, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra zebuensis Reeve, L.A. 1844. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 1-27 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : Reeve & Bentham Vol. 2. [pl. 10, fig. 73].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ile Zebu.
• Mitra rorata 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 [171].
• Mitra rubella Adams, A. & Reeve, L. 1849. Mollusca. pp. 2544, pls 1017 in Adams, A. (ed.). The Zoology of the Vogage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. London : Reeve, Benham & Reeve. [27, pl. 10, fig. 30].
• Mitra rufomaculata Souverbie, M. 1860. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 8: 311-326 [321, pl. 11, fig. 9].
• Mitra salmonea 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. [pl. 370, fig. 375].
• MItra praetexta 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. [33, pl. 363, fig. 198].
• Mitra chariessa Melvill, J.C. 1888. Description of fifteen new species of Mitra. Journal of Conchology 5: 281-288, pl. 2, figs11-25 [283, pl. 2, fig. 15].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [167] (see reference for additional synonym)

 

Generic Combinations

• Vexillum (Costellaria) zebuense (Reeve, 1844). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [167]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west and central Pacific. Wilson (1994) gave the range as Abrolhos, WA, to Torres Strait, but there are insufficient records to assume a continuous distribution across northern Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

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. [23]

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. 1981. On a collection of buccinacean and mitrician gastropods (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) from the Mozambique Channel and New Caledonia. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Section A, Zoologie, biologie et écologie animale [Paris, published 1979-1996] 3 A(4): 985-1009 [993]

Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(2): 179-259 [219]

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

Ladd, H.S. 1977. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 533: iv 84 pp., pls 1-23 [66]

Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 4. Of Sea and Shore 23(2): 70-84 [74]

Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51 [45]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [167, pl. 36, figs 31a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	COSTELLARIIDAE	10-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		09-Nov-2011	MODIFIED