Species Vexillum consanguinea (Reeve, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitra consanguinea Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Mitra. pls 28-39 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 2. [imprint date 1843] [pl. 30, fig. 241].
• Mitra russa Gould, A.A. 1860. Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 323-340 [333].

 

Generic Combinations

• Vexillum (Pusia) consanguinea (Reeve, 1845). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [168]
• Vexillum consanguinea (Reeve, 1845).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific. Australian distribution from Wilson (1994) and AMS collection. Wilson (1994) gave the range as Ningaloo marine park, WA, to Bunker Group, Queensland, but there are not enough records available to support a continuous distribution across northern Australia. Coral Sea record based on AMS C.324798. Region 14 record based on AMS C.450624

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), 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. [5]

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 [56]

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

Wells, F.F., Bryce, C.W., Clark, J.E. & Hansen, G.M. 1990. Christmas Shells. The marine molluscs of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Christmas Island: Australia : Christmas Island Natural History Association 98 pp., pls 1-81. [53]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [168, pl. 36, figs 7a-b]

Yen, T.C. 1944. Notes on some unfigured type-specimens of Chinese mollusks. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 38 23: 561-586 [574]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	COSTELLARIIDAE	12-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		09-Nov-2011	MODIFIED