Genus Xenophora Fischer von Waldheim, 1807

Museums

Regional Maps

• Xenophora Fischer von Waldheim, G. 1807. Museum Demidoff ou Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l'art: données à l'Université Impériale de Moscou par son excellence Monsieur Paul de Demidoff. Moscou : Demidoff Vol. 3 pp. ix + 330, pls I-VI. [213] [Xenophora laevigata is a substitute name for Trochus conchyliophorus Born, 1780. Placed on the Official List by Opinion 715, 1964, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 21(6): 417].

  Type species:

   Xenophora laevigata Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 by original designation (= Trochus conchyliophorus Born, 1780).
• Phorus Montfort, P.D. de 1810. Conchyliologie Systematique, et Classification Methodique des Coquilles. Paris : F. Schoell Tome 2 676 + 16 pp. [159].

  Type species:

   Phorus agglutinans Montfort, 1810 by original designation.
• Endoptygma Gabb, W.M. 1877. Notes on American Cretaceous Fossils, with descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1876, 28: 276-324 [302].

  Type species:

   Phorus umbilicatum Tuomey, 1854 by original designation.
• Austrophora Kreipl, K. Alf, A. & Kronenberg, G.C. 1999. A new subgenus of the family Xenophoridae Philippi, 1853. Spixiana (Munich) 22(2): 179-180 [179].

  Type species:

   Onustus flindersi Cotton & Godfrey, 1938 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [49]

Kreipl, K. & Alf, A. 1999. Recent Xenophoridae. Hackenheim : ConchBooks 148 pp. [16]

Ponder, W.F. 1983. A revision of the Recent Xenophoridae of the world and of the Australian fossil species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Memoirs of the Australian Museum 17: 1-126 [17]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [167]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	09-Oct-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
		03-Feb-2012	MODIFIED