OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Costellariidae
Vexillum (Pusia) australe (Swainson, 1820)
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Mitra australis Swainson, 1820
Mitra melaleuca Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
Mitra kieneri Sowerby, 1874
Mitra vincentiana Verco, 1896
Distribution
From Waratah Bay, Victoria to Tasmania and along the South Australian coast to Exmouth Gulf, West Australia.
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: S Gulfs coast
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Lower W coast
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Tas. coast
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: SW coast
ABRS Regions: Australia: South Australia
ABRS Regions: Australia: Tasmania
ABRS Regions: Australia: Western Australia
ABRS Regions: Australia: Victoria
OBIS Regions: Temperate Indo-West Pacific: Southern Hemisphere: Australia (S): Victoria
OBIS Regions: Temperate Indo-West Pacific: Southern Hemisphere: Australia (S): South Australia
OBIS Regions: Temperate Indo-West Pacific: Southern Hemisphere: Australia (S): Western Australia
OBIS Regions: Temperate Indo-West Pacific: Southern Hemisphere: Australia (S): Tasmania
Keywords
depth: continental shelf
depth: intertidal [
]
depth: intertidal and subtidal [ from the intertidal zone to a depth of 33m;
Species [sic.] dredged from 73 m were collected
devoid of animal.
]
depth: shallow subtidal
depth: subtidal
habitat: coral reef
substrate: under stones [ On reef-flats and under stones.
]
References
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1970. p.56 [ Additional ref. type: Distribution
] Contains synonymy
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1980. p.124 [ Additional reference type:
Contains synonymy
] Distribution
Wilson, B. 1994. p.167 General reference
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Visceroconcha
Gastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Sorbeoconcha
Hypsogastropoda
Neogastropoda
Volutoidea
Costellariidae
Vexillum Röding, 1798
Vexillum (Pusia) Swainson, 1840
Vexillum (Pusia) australe (Swainson, 1820)
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=13537) created by Playpus Export Program on 2000-11-09. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-05-29.