Species Globovula cavanaghi (Iredale, 1931)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diminovula cavanaghi Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.57754 dry, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'0"S,151°13'58.8"E].
• Globovula spatiosa Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [22].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 68-70, WSW AUstralia.
• Globovula cottesloensis Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [23].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 69-70, 1 mile south of Cottesloe Beach between Cottesloe and Leighton, Western Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [34] (see for complete synonymy)

Generic Combinations

• Prionovolva cavanaghi (Iredale, 1931). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [206, pl. 24, figs 18a-b]
• Primovula (Prionovolva) cavanaghi (Iredale, 1931). —
  Allan, J. 1956. Cowry Shells of World Seas. Melbourne : Georgian House 170 pp. [123]
• Globovula cavanaghi (Iredale, 1931). —
  Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [21]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, coral reef, intertidal, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 10 m on Capnella spp.

General References

Cate, C.N. 1973. A systematic revision of the Recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger supplement 15: 1-116 [21-22]

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 [59]

Lorenz, F. & Fehse, D. 2009. The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. ConchBooks pp. 1-651. [34, pls 3, 203, A9]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [207, text fig.; pl. 24, figs 18 a,b]

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