Subspecies Cymbiola pulchra wisemani (Brazier, 1870)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta (Aulica) wisemani Brazier, J. 1870. Descriptions of three new species of marine shells from the Australian coast. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1): 108–109 [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.11497 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Bunker Group, Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, Australia [24°7'1.2'S,152°41'60'E].
• Cymbiola randalli Stokes, A.J. 1961. A new species of Volute from Undine Reef, Queensland Cymbiola randalli sp. Nov. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section (16): 3-4 , text fig. [3, text fig.].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F22758, 3 miles from Undine Reef, North Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cymbiola pulchra wisemani (Brazier, 1870).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Townsville to Cairns, Queensland, Australia (POPPE1992A), St Crispin Reef in the north to Stanley Reef in the south (Bail&Limpus1998).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From 2 m; to 30 m.

 

General References

Bail, P. & Limpus, A. 1998. The "pulchra complex": revision of Cymbiola (Cymbiolacca) from East Australian Coast. Rome : Evolver 80 pp. [15]

McMichael, D.F. 1959. Marine Mollusca of eastern Australia. 1. The genus Cymbiolacca Iredale (Family Volutidae). The Australian Zoologist 12(4): 374-383 [380,pl. 44, figs 7-8] (as Cymbiolacca wisemani)

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [172,pl. 77, figs 3-7]

Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1-375. [98,pl. 41A-D]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [257, pl. 708] (Randall's Volute, Wiseman's Volute)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	02-Feb-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED