• Xenophora (Xenophora) peroniana kondoi 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 [32, figs 8d, 21m-o, 34].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 335064, S. coast of Oahu Island, in fine coral sand.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Hawaiian Islands

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

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]

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. [183, fig. 63k-m]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [168, pl. 23, fig. 4a-b]

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [291] (Adorned Carrier Shell)

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [133] (Peronian Carrier Shell Or Shell Collector)

History of changes

• Xenophora sp. Allan, J. 1927. The carrier shell. Australian Museum Magazine 3(2): 57
• Onustus peroniana Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [172].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.104143 dry, off Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia [34°1'1.2"S, 151°19'48"E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [30-32, figs 8c, 14i, 16, 20d, 21d-l, 34] (see for complete synonymy)

Generic Combinations

• Xenophora (Xenophora) peroniana peroniana (Iredale, 1929). —
  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 [30-32, figs 8c, 14i, 16, 20d, 21d-l, 34]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Xenophora corrugata auct. [misidentification, non Reeve, 1842]. —
  Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [51, pl. 4, fig. 21]
• Xenophora tatei auct. [misidentification, non Harris, 1897]. —
  Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325–402, pls 36-37 [Date published 8 October 1903] [357]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

37-457 m

General References

Kreipl, K. & Alf, A. 1999. Recent Xenophoridae. Hackenheim : ConchBooks 148 pp. [48, pl. 14, figs 11-11b]

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 [30, figs 8c, 14i, 16, 20d, 21d-l, 34]

History of changes