Subgenus Vexillum (Vexillum) Röding, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vexillum Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [138].

  Type species:

   Vexillum plicatum Röding, 1798 by subsequent designation (Wooriginal designationring, 1928, Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica, 2: 244).
• Turris Montfort, P.D. de 1810. Conchyliologie Systematique, et Classification Methodique des Coquilles. Paris : F. Schoell Tome 2 676 + 16 pp. [538] [junior homonym; not Turris Röding, 1798].

  Type species:

   Voluta vulpecula Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Turricula Fabricius, O. 1823. Fortegnelser over Fabriciussesefterladte Naturalier. Copenhagen. [80] [invalid name; placed on the Official Index by Opinion 521].
• Tiara Swainson, W. 1831. Zoological Illustrations, or Original Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and arranged according to their natural affinities. Series 2 London : Baldwin & Craddock Vol. 3.

  Type species:

   Mitra corrugata Lamarck, 1811 (SD, Gray, 1847, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15: 142) by subsequent designation.
• Harpaeformis Lesson, R.P. 1842. [Title unknown]. L'Echo du Monde Savant [Année 9, Semestre 2(3): column 63].

  Type species:

   Mitra lupulina Lesson, 1842 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

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 [52]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [170]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	COSTELLARIIDAE	19-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		09-Nov-2011	(import)