Species Vexillum patriarchalis (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta patriarchalis Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3460].
• Mitra depressa Cate, J. 1963. Revision of Dall's Hawaiian mitrids with descriptions of three new species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Veliger 6(1): 23-43, pls 5-8 [31].

 

Generic Combinations

• Vexillum (Pusia) patriarchalis (Gmelin, 1791).
• Vexillum patriarchalis (Gmelin, 1791).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west and central Pacific. Distribution in Australia from Wilson (1994) and AMS collection. Wilson gave a distribution of Ashmore Reef to northen NSW, but the records available are insufficient to support a continuous distribution around northern Australia. Also occurs on Christmas Island (AMS C.152469)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, 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. [10]

Cate, J. 1963. Revision of Dall's Hawaiian mitrids with descriptions of three new species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Veliger 6(1): 23-43, pls 5-8 [31]

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]

Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, L.J. 1923. Mitridés de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie 67(2): 179-259 [241]

Guillot de Suduiraut, E. 2000. Contribution à la connaissance de quelques gastéropides mitriformes e l'archipel des Philippines (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mitridae & Costellariidae). Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 89: 8-12 [8]

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

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [329-330]

Salisbury, R. 2000. Costellariidae of the World, Pt. 3. Of Sea and Shore 23(1): 4-14 [12]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [342]

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [218]

Thach, N.N. 2002. The miters of Vietnam. Of Sea and Shore 25(1): 40-51 [47]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [169, pl. 36, figs 11a-c]

 

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	MODIFIED