DOCSLIB.ORG

A Revision of the Austrialian Turridae

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

IIS HSHI1I JBHh IBIJHjj liHn — \ Z CO 5 00 ? w \ MITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NOIinillSNI NVINOSH1IWS S3iaVaai1 LIBRARIES SMITHSONIAN co Z co z .... CO ^ ^ to *• z CO z libraries Smithsonian institution vinoshiiws S3 1 a vy an NouruiiSNi nvinoshiiws <« = CO = CO — MITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NOIlDHiSNI NVINOSH1IWS S3 I M V 8 a H LIBRARIES SMITHSONIAN MITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NOIinillSNI NVINOSH1IWS S3iavaan LIBRARIES SMITHSONIAN W Z CO Z o z « v z to z to V 2 libraries jvinoshiiws S3 1 a va an Smithsonian institution NouruiiSNi nvinoshiiws l >mithsonian~institution NoiiniiiSNi~ NviNOSHiiws ssiavaan libraries Smithsonian Z r- , Z r- Z E S Co 5 — co \ 5 — °° NOiiniusNi nvinoshiiws ssiavaan libraries Smithsonian institution Noiiniush z w z «,, w z co > Ll B RAR I E LIBRARIES^SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NOUfUllSNI NVIN0SHllWs" S3 I aVd 8 I1_ to — co co . 5 . ^ ^ z c 5 ^^^ m 5 '^» ^^^ 5 Z ^^ 2 NOIinilJLSh I a Vd 9 H^LI B RAR I ES SMITHSONIAN^INSTITUTION N0linillSNrNVIN0SHllWS S3 2 C/, S3IHVUai"1LIBRARIE LI B RAR I ES SMITHSONIAN~INSTITUTION"'N0lirilliSNrNVIN0SHllWS CO z , CO Z NOiiniusNi NviNOSHiiws^ssiavaan libraries Smithsonian institution Nonniiisr c 1 > O X^ost^ Z O J tlBRARIES~SMITHSONIAN~INSTITUTION NOIinillSNl" NVINOSHllWS S3iavaai1 LIBRAR I «~ z . z r ... z z _ CO _ {/) \ NOiiniusNi nvinoshiiws S3iavaan libraries Smithsonian institution^ NOIiniliS W </> Ll B RAR E ' LIBRARIES SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NOIlfUllSNI NVIN0SHilWS S3 I aVd a I1_ c J Z Z w N0linillSNl" S3 laVdail^LIBRARI ES SMITHSONIAN |NSTITUTION NOIlfUllS NVIN0SHllWS - •" r~ , z i Z 7i ^ N^i Division of Moitasks i W^-AX i * t. RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM EDITED B-Y THE DIRECTOR. Vol. XIII., No. 6. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES CHARLES ANDERSON, M.A., D.Sc, SYDNEY. SEPTEMBER 30th. 1922 Vale & Pearson Ltd.. Printers I Castlereagh Street. Sydney. CONTENTS. PAGE A Revision of the Australian Turrida-. By Charles Hedley. ' ... ... 213 A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN TURRIDJE. BV Charles Hedley. (Plates xlii.-lvi.) The marine gasteropods embraced in the family Turridce (formerly Pleurotomidce) are considered by those wlio meddle with them to be more perplexing than any other mollnscan family. This is because that family embraces a bewildering wealth of recent and fossil species, frequently small in size, variable or indistinct in feature, and from depths difficult of access. For the most part the species are expressed by a poverty of individuals. This small proportion of individuals to a species is the general rule with carnivora, which by ecological harmony must be less numerous in individuals than the phytophaga. But the consequent scarcity of specimens hinders that exchange and comparison of material between students, so necessary for the correction of error and advance of knowledge. The range of Turrid species in space appears to be rather narrow. Our knowledge of the Australian Turridce is still very incomplete. The fauna of eastern Australia from Hobart to Torres Strait is best represented in this paper ; that of the north and west is scarcely known at all; that of the south coast has been elaborated in excellent papers by Sir Joseph Verco. Re-arrangement of species and genera to conform with modern taxonomy has rejected such old friends as Pleiirotomu, Drillia, Mangelia, Glyphnstoma, Clathurella, Cythara, and Jlehi, so that Duphnella alone survives of the generic names used in this group for our fauna by the last generation of conchologists. About three hundred and seventy recent species discussed in the following pages are divided into four sub-families. First are the Turri- nce, distinguished by a narrow unguicnlate operculum with an apical nucleus. As this feature is not always available for study, it is useful to note that the nuclear whorl is comparatively large and almost as broad as the rest of the protoconch, and that the interior of the shell is often fluted. An operculum with a medio-lateral nucleus is held to be the distin- guishing feature of the sub-family Clavatulince. Those genera are assigned to the sub-family Mangiliince, in which the protoconch is helicoid, with a very small initial, and rapidly increasing subsequent whorls. Here the texture of the adult shell is frequently "gritty," from a sculpture of minute grains; the varix is usually well developed, and the fasciole evanescent. A series of pustules on the columella is an ordinary feature. The operculum is said to be missing. An elaborately sculptured protoconch contrasts with the smooth protoconch of previous groups, and gives ready recognition to the fourth family —the Dwphnellince. — 214 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. I have to thank the Trustees of the Maoleay Museum, University of Sydney, for the loan of the Turrids taken by the Ohevert Expedition, and the Council of the Linnean Society of New South Wales for permission to reprint some text figures. Family TURRID^E. Sub-family Turrin^e. Turris Mutter. Turris Miiller, Delic. Nat. .Selects, i., 1766, p. 129, type Murex babylonius Linne. Id. Bolten, Mus. Bolt. 1798, p. 123. Id. Dall Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., liv., 1918, p. 332. Pleurotoma Lamarck, Mem. Soc. Nat. Hist. Paris, 1799, p. 73. Lophiotoma Casey, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, xiv., 1904, p. 130. Turris is a strictly tropical genus. The shell is large, with a tall slender spire ; outer lip sharp, without fold or thickening ; the notch is a deep slit with parallel sides following a walled-in fasciole; within the body whorl are sharp raised revolving threads (PI. xlii., fig. 1), a feature shared by related genera. Protoconch of two smooth rounded whorls (PI. xlii., fig. 3). Operculum unguiculate, with apical nucleus. The animal has been figured by Quoy and Gaimard, 1 and by Gould. 2 The species catalogued by Brazier 3 as Pleurotoma brevieaudata is not that, but is described in this paper as Turridrupa deceptrix. What the same writer considered to be Pleurotoma punctata (op. cit., p. 151) is here recorded as Gemm.ula graeffei; and what Brazier catalogued as P. jubata and P . armillata are here included under Turridrupa acntigemmata Smith. Prom the Australian Tertiary the following fossils have been described by Harris Turris optatu, salebrosa, septemlirata, subconcava, and trilirata. Turris babylonia Linne. (PI. xlii, fig. 1.) Murex babylonia Linne, Syst. Nat, x, 1758, p. 753. Id. Knorr, Conchlien, iv, 1789, p. 403, pi. xiii, fig. 2. Id. Hanley, Ips. Linn. Conch, 1855, p. 299. Pleurotoma babylonia Weinkauff, Conch. Cab, 1875, p. 10, pi. i, figs. 4, 5. Id. Tapparone Canefri, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ix, 1878, p. 246. Id. Shirley, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxiii, 1911, p. 101. Id. Schepman, Siboga Exped. Mon, xlixe, 1913, p. 398. Id. Bouge and Dautzenberg, Journ. de Conch, xli, 1914, p. 125. Buc.rinum coelatum Martyn, Univ. Conch, ii, 1789, pi. xciv. Pleurotoma vennsta Reeve, Conch. Icon, i, 1843, pi. ix, fig. 79. Hab. Queensland: —Cairns (Shirley). 1 Quoy and Gaimard— Astrolabe Zoologie, PI. xxxv., fig. 4. 2 Gould—Moll. U. S. Explor. Exped, PI. xviii, fig. 311. a Brazier—Proc. Linn. Soo. N.S.Wales, i, 1876, p. 152. A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN TURRID.E— HEDLEY. 215 Turris crispa Lamarck. Pleilrotoma crispa Lamarck, Encycl. Meth. Vers., 1S16, pi. ccccxxxix., fig. 4, and An. s. vert., vii., 1822, p. 95. Id. Kiener, Coq. Viv., 1S40, p. 8, pi. ii., fig. 1. Id. Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1843, pi. ii., fig. 11. Id. Weinkauff, Conch. Cab., 1875, p. 9, pi. i., figs. 1, 2. Id. Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ii., 1877 (1878), p. 368. Id. Schepman, Siboga Kxped. Mon., xlixe., 1913, p. 398. Pleilrotoma grandis Griffiths and Pidgeon, Mollusca, 1833, p. 599, pl.xxiii., ' fig. 1. Id. Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1843, pi. ii, fig. 13. Id. Shirley, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxiii., 1911, p. 101. Hab. Queensland:—20 fathoms, Darnley Island (Brazier); 10 fathoms, Mapoon, Gulf of Carpentaria (self). Turris indica Bolten. Turn's indica Bolten, Mus. Bolt., 1798, p. 124 for Conch. Cab., iv., pi. cxlv., figs. 1345-6. Id. Melvill, Proc. Malac. Soc. xii., 1917, p. 143. (not Pleurotoma indica Deshayes, in Belanger Voy. Indes Orient. Zool., 1833, p. 95). Pleurotoma marmorata Lamarck, An. s. vert., vii., 1822, p. 95 (not P. marmorata Lamarck, 1816, q.v.). Id. Blainville, Diet. Sci. Nat. Meth., xli., 1826, p. 3S5. Id. Gray, Zool. Beechey Voy., 1839, p. 119, pi. xxxiv, fig. 9. Id. Kiener, Coq. Viv., 1840, p. 9, pi. vi., fig. 1, pi. vii., fig. 2. Id. Reeve, Couch. Icon., i., 1S43, pi. iii., fig. 216. Id. Schmeltz, Mus. Godeffroy, Cat., iv., 1869, p. 90. Id. Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.Wales, ii., 1877 (1878), p. 36. Id. Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, p. 186. Id. Watson, Chall. Rep. Zool., xt., 1S86, p. 277. Id. Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), xvi., 1895, p. 263. Id. Sfcurany, Pola Exped. Moll., 1903, p. 228, pi. iv., tig. 1. Id. Schepman, Siboga Exped. Mon., xlixe. , 1913, p. 399. Id. Bouge and Dautzenberg, Journ. de Conch., lxi., 1914, p. 128. Pleurotoma ueglecta Reeve, Conch. Syst., ii., 1842, p. 189, pl.ccxxxv., fig. 2. Pleitrotoma hastida Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1843, pi. xvii., fig. 139. : Hab. Queensland —25 fathoms, Darnley Island (Brazier) ; Cape York ("Challenger"). Northern Territory: — Darwin (Spencer). Tdruis MARMORATA Lamarck. (Plate xlii., figs. 2-3.) Pleurotoma marmorata Lamarck, Encycl. Meth., 1816, pi. ccccxxxix., tig. 6, expl. pi. p. 8 (not P. marmorata Lamarck, An. s. vert., vii., 1822, p. 95 = T. indica Bolten). Pleurotoma albi.ua Lamarck, An. s. vert, vii., 1822, p. 96. Id. Gray, Zool. Beechev Voy., 1839, p. 120, pi. xxxiv., fig. 4. Id. Kiener, Coq. Viv., 1840, p". 11, pi. xv., fig. 1. 216 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. Pleurotoma peaseana Dunker, Malak. Blatt., xviii., 1871, p. 158. Id. Weinkauff, Conch.
Recommended publications
  • (10 Y 50 M De Profundidad), Caribe Colombiano*

    (10 Y 50 M De Profundidad), Caribe Colombiano*

    Bol. Invest. Mar. Cost. 39 (2) 397-416 ISSN 0122-9761 Santa Marta, Colombia, 2010 MOLUSCOS BENTÓNICOS DE LA GUAJIRA (10 Y 50 M DE PROFUNDIDAD), CARIBE COLOMBIANO* Erlenis Fontalvo Palacio 1, Adriana Gracia C. 1 y Guillermo Duque 2 1 Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras “José Benito Vives De Andréis”-INVEMAR, Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia (MHNMC), A.A.1016, Santa Marta, Colombia. erlenis_fontalvo@ invemar.org.co (E.F.), [email protected] (A.G.) 2 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ingeniería y Administración, Departamento de Ingeniería, Ingeniería Ambiental, Carrera 32 Chapinero, Palmira, Colombia. [email protected]. edu.co RESUMEN Se estudi la composicin y abundancia de los moluscos bentnicos encontrados en el departamento de La Guajira al norte del Caribe colombiano. Para esto se realiz un crucero de investigacin a bordo del B/I Ancn del INVEMAR en donde se llevaron a cabo arrastres a 10 y 50 m de profundidad. Se recolect un total de 4840 individuos, identificndose 215 especies pertenecientes a las clases Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda y Polyplacophora, dentro de las cuales 19 fueron especies registradas por primera vez para el departamento. La clase Gastropoda present el mayor nmero de especies (52 %) y Bivalvia la mayor abundancia (71 % de los individuos), siendo el bivalvo Laevicardium sybariticum la especie ms abundante del rea de estudio. Los anlisis multivariados utilizados no mostraron patrones claramente definidos con relacin a la profundidad y el tipo de sedimento. PALABRAS CLAVE: Moluscos, Abundancia, Riqueza, La Guajira, Caribe colombiano. ABSTRACT Benthic mollusks of La Guajira (10 and 50 m depths), Colombian Caribbean.
  • The Recent Molluscan Marine Fauna of the Islas Galápagos

    The Recent Molluscan Marine Fauna of the Islas Galápagos

    THE FESTIVUS ISSN 0738-9388 A publication of the San Diego Shell Club Volume XXIX December 4, 1997 Supplement The Recent Molluscan Marine Fauna of the Islas Galapagos Kirstie L. Kaiser Vol. XXIX: Supplement THE FESTIVUS Page i THE RECENT MOLLUSCAN MARINE FAUNA OF THE ISLAS GALApAGOS KIRSTIE L. KAISER Museum Associate, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA 4 December 1997 SiL jo Cover: Adapted from a painting by John Chancellor - H.M.S. Beagle in the Galapagos. “This reproduction is gifi from a Fine Art Limited Edition published by Alexander Gallery Publications Limited, Bristol, England.” Anon, QU Lf a - ‘S” / ^ ^ 1 Vol. XXIX Supplement THE FESTIVUS Page iii TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 MATERIALS AND METHODS 1 DISCUSSION 2 RESULTS 2 Table 1: Deep-Water Species 3 Table 2: Additions to the verified species list of Finet (1994b) 4 Table 3: Species listed as endemic by Finet (1994b) which are no longer restricted to the Galapagos .... 6 Table 4: Summary of annotated checklist of Galapagan mollusks 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 6 LITERATURE CITED 7 APPENDIX 1: ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF GALAPAGAN MOLLUSKS 17 APPENDIX 2: REJECTED SPECIES 47 INDEX TO TAXA 57 Vol. XXIX: Supplement THE FESTIVUS Page 1 THE RECENT MOLLUSCAN MARINE EAUNA OE THE ISLAS GALAPAGOS KIRSTIE L. KAISER' Museum Associate, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA Introduction marine mollusks (Appendix 2). The first list includes The marine mollusks of the Galapagos are of additional earlier citations, recent reported citings, interest to those who study eastern Pacific mollusks, taxonomic changes and confirmations of 31 species particularly because the Archipelago is far enough from previously listed as doubtful.
  • BULLETIN (Mailed to Financial Members of the Society Within Victoria) Price 50¢ EDITOR Val Cram

    BULLETIN (Mailed to Financial Members of the Society Within Victoria) Price 50¢ EDITOR Val Cram

    THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA Inc. VICTORIAN BRANCH BULLETIN (Mailed to financial members of the Society within Victoria) Price 50¢ EDITOR Val Cram. Tel. No. 9792 9163 ADDRESS: 6 Southdean Street, Dandenong, Vic. 3175 Conus marmoreus Linne EMAIL: [email protected] VIC. BR. BULL. NO. 271 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2013 NOTICE OF MEETING The next meeting of the Branch will be held on the 21st of October at the Melbourne Camera Club Building, cnr. Dorcas & Ferrars Sts South Melbourne at 8pm. This will be a member‟s night. The November meeting will be on the 18th and will be the annual meeting and election of office bearers. This will also be a Member‟s night unless advised otherwise. Supper & Raffles as usual. This Bulletin has been expanded due to the amount of material on hand. Thanks to all contributors who have supported the Bulletin this year. Bulletin No.1 was published on the 19th of August 1968 and the current header commenced at issue 10, October 1970. The format although made easier by computer has changed little over the years and has provided a cost effective way of recording the activities of members and their research. Issues 100- 271 have now been scanned and stored in pdf form. Our Member‟s nights have been excellent this year. Live images of specimens taken by divers and from intertidal surveys, sometimes of species never recorded alive have been a feature of our meetings. We would welcome any speakers who could give a presentation at our meetings. Contact Michael Lyons (secretary). Secretary/Treasurer Michael Lyons Tel.
  • On the Raphitoma Pupoides (Monterosato, 1884) Complex, with the Description of a New Species (Mollusca Gastropoda)

    On the Raphitoma Pupoides (Monterosato, 1884) Complex, with the Description of a New Species (Mollusca Gastropoda)

    Biodiversity Journal , 2016, 7 (1): 103–115 MONOGRAPH A revision of the Mediterranean Raphitomidae, 3: on the Raphitoma pupoides (Monterosato, 1884) complex, with the description of a new species (Mollusca Gastropoda) Francesco Pusateri 1, Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli 2* & Stefano Bartolini 3 1via Castellana 64, 90135 Palermo, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] 2via Mater Dolorosa 54, 90146 Palermo, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] 3via e. Zacconi 16, 50137 Firenze, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding author ABSTRACT In the present work we present a complex of species of the family Raphitomidae (Mollusca Gastropoda) comprising three entities: two have multispiral protoconchs, Raphitoma pupoides (Monterosato, 1884), the less known R. radula (Monterosato, 1884) and a new species with paucispiral protoconch. KEY WORDS Mollusca; Conoidea; Raphitomidae; new species; Mediterranean Sea. Received 02.03.2016; accepted 24.03.2016; printed 30.03.2016 Proceedings of the Ninth Malacological Pontine Meeting, October 3rd-4th, 2015 - San Felice Circeo, Italy INTRODUCTION related species among different genera only based on their larval development (Bouchet, 1990). the family of Raphitomidae is a well supported In the present work we present the results on clade of the Conoidea (Bouchet et al., 2011). the a complex of species comprising three entities: genus Raphitoma Bellardi, 1847 as currently two have multispiral protoconchs, R. pupoides conceived includes, based on our estimates, ca. 40 (Monterosato, 1884), and the less known R. radula Mediterranean species, some of which are still (Monterosato, 1884); the other was discovered undescribed. Propaedeutic to the general revision while revising the materials in the Monterosato of the Mediterranean Raphitoma s.l., we have collection, where a lot (MCZR 16905) included focused on several pairs of species, differing only some specimens with paucispiral protoconch, la- or mostly in the size and shape of the protoconch belled by Monterosato himself “ V.
  • The Quest for Natural Biogeographic Regions

    The Quest for Natural Biogeographic Regions

    Chapter 3 Carving up Australasia: the quest for natural biogeographic regions Most systematists will squirm at inferences derived from a non-monophyletic or artificial taxon. The importance of monophyly is critical to understanding the natural world and drawing inferences about past processes and events. Since the early 19th century, plant and animal geographers have also been concerned about correctly identifying natural areas. Plant geographer and taxonomist Augustin de Candolle tried to propose natural laws when proposing natural areas and failed. Humboldt abandoned natural classification and assigned vegetable forms, thereby creating a useful classification, which was unfortunately artificial. For early 19th century Australasian biogeographers, the concept of cladistic biogeography and area monophyly was decades away, while the importance of finding natural areas was immediate. Natural areas allowed the biogeographer to make inferences about the biotic evolution of a region such as Australia or New Zealand. Discovering the relationships between natural areas would allow for better inferences about dispersal pathways and evolutionary connections between continental floras and faunas, rather than proposing ephemeral land-bridges or sunken continents. Still, after 150 years of searching, biogeographers puzzle over the natural regions of Australasia. Why natural regions? As in biological systematics, artificial taxa represent a pastiche of distantly related taxa (think of the term ‘insectivores’, which would include all insect eating animals, such as funnel-web spiders, bee-eaters and echidnas). Artificial taxa are more closely related to other taxa than they are to themselves. The same is true for biogeography – artificial areas, such as ‘Australia’, are composites that are more closely related to other areas than they are to themselves.
  • Gastropoda: Turbinellidae)

    Gastropoda: Turbinellidae)

    Ruthenica, 200 I, II (2): 81-136. ©Ruthenica, 2001 A revision of the Recent species of Exilia, formerly Benthovoluta (Gastropoda: Turbinellidae) I 2 3 Yuri I. KANTOR , Philippe BOUCHET , Anton OLEINIK 1 A.N. Severtzov Institute of Problems of Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninski prosp. 33, Moscow 117071, RUSSIA; 2 Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 55, Rue BufJon, 75005 Paris, FRANCE; 3 Department of Geography & Geology Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd, Physical Sciences Building, PS 336, Boca Raton FL 33431-0991, USA ABSTRACT. The range of shell characters (overall established among some of these nominal taxa. shape, sculpture, columellar plaits, protoconchs) Schematically, Exilia Conrad, 1860, Palaeorhaphis exhibited by fossil and Recent species placed in Stewart, 1927, and Graphidula Stephenson, 1941 Exilia Conrad, 1860, Mitraefusus Bellardi, 1873, are currently used as valid genera for Late Creta­ Mesorhytis Meek, 1876, Surculina Dall, 1908, Phe­ ceous to Neogene fossils; and Surculina Dall, 1908 nacoptygma Dall, 1918, Palaeorhaphis Stewart, 1927, and Benthovoluta Kuroda et Habe, 1950 are cur­ Zexilia Finlay, 1926, Graphidula Stephenson, 1941, rently used as valid genera for Recent deep-water Benthovoluta Kuroda et Habe, 1950, and Chatha­ species from middle to low latitudes. Each of these midia Dell, 1956 and the anatomy of the Recent nominal taxa has had a complex history of family species precludes separation of more than one genus. allocation, which has not facilitated comparisons Consequently all of these nominal genera are sy­ on a broader scale. Exilia and Benthovoluta are the nonymised with Exilia, with a stratigraphical range genera best known in the fossil and Recent litera­ from Late Cretaceous to Recent.
  • Rare and Curious Specimens, an Illustrated

    Rare and Curious Specimens, an Illustrated

    Having held the position in an acting capacity, Etheridge experienced no dif­ ficulty in assuming the full-time position of curator on 1 January 1895. He had, of course, to relinquish his half-time post in the Geological Survey but, as consulting palaeontologist to the Survey, he retained a foot in each camp and continued to publish under the aegis of both institutions. His scientific staff consisted of six men. Whitelegge was still active in his researches on marine invertebrates and was engaged in testing the efficiency of formalin as a preservative. North continued his studies on birds, but somewhat less actively since, to free Brazier for work on his long-delayed catalogue, he had been made responsible also for the ethnological, numismatic and historical collections. Conchology was now in the hands of Charles Hedley, first appointed in 1891 on a temporary basis to handle the routine matters of this department and to leave Brazier more time for his catalogue. Born in England, Hedley came to Australia at the age of twenty to seek relief from asthma and after a short period working on an oyster lease on Stradbroke Island, turned to fruit growing at Boyne Island. When a badly fractured left arm rendered him unfit for heavy work, he moved to Brisbane where, in 1889, he obtained a position on the staff of the Queensland Museum and developed an interest in shells. Finding that the collections and library of that insti­ tution were inadequate for his needs, he moved to Sydney and, within a few months, was recruited to the Museum at the age of thirty.
  • (Approx) Mixed Micro Shells (22G Bags) Philippines € 10,00 £8,64 $11,69 Each 22G Bag Provides Hours of Fun; Some Interesting Foraminifera Also Included

    (Approx) Mixed Micro Shells (22G Bags) Philippines € 10,00 £8,64 $11,69 Each 22G Bag Provides Hours of Fun; Some Interesting Foraminifera Also Included

    Special Price £ US$ Family Genus, species Country Quality Size Remarks w/o Photo Date added Category characteristic (€) (approx) (approx) Mixed micro shells (22g bags) Philippines € 10,00 £8,64 $11,69 Each 22g bag provides hours of fun; some interesting Foraminifera also included. 17/06/21 Mixed micro shells Ischnochitonidae Callistochiton pulchrior Panama F+++ 89mm € 1,80 £1,55 $2,10 21/12/16 Polyplacophora Ischnochitonidae Chaetopleura lurida Panama F+++ 2022mm € 3,00 £2,59 $3,51 Hairy girdles, beautifully preserved. Web 24/12/16 Polyplacophora Ischnochitonidae Ischnochiton textilis South Africa F+++ 30mm+ € 4,00 £3,45 $4,68 30/04/21 Polyplacophora Ischnochitonidae Ischnochiton textilis South Africa F+++ 27.9mm € 2,80 £2,42 $3,27 30/04/21 Polyplacophora Ischnochitonidae Stenoplax limaciformis Panama F+++ 16mm+ € 6,50 £5,61 $7,60 Uncommon. 24/12/16 Polyplacophora Chitonidae Acanthopleura gemmata Philippines F+++ 25mm+ € 2,50 £2,16 $2,92 Hairy margins, beautifully preserved. 04/08/17 Polyplacophora Chitonidae Acanthopleura gemmata Australia F+++ 25mm+ € 2,60 £2,25 $3,04 02/06/18 Polyplacophora Chitonidae Acanthopleura granulata Panama F+++ 41mm+ € 4,00 £3,45 $4,68 West Indian 'fuzzy' chiton. Web 24/12/16 Polyplacophora Chitonidae Acanthopleura granulata Panama F+++ 32mm+ € 3,00 £2,59 $3,51 West Indian 'fuzzy' chiton. 24/12/16 Polyplacophora Chitonidae Chiton tuberculatus Panama F+++ 44mm+ € 5,00 £4,32 $5,85 Caribbean. 24/12/16 Polyplacophora Chitonidae Chiton tuberculatus Panama F++ 35mm € 2,50 £2,16 $2,92 Caribbean. 24/12/16 Polyplacophora Chitonidae Chiton tuberculatus Panama F+++ 29mm+ € 3,00 £2,59 $3,51 Caribbean.
  • Geomorphology and the Great Barrier Reef

    Geomorphology and the Great Barrier Reef

    Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85302-6 - The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: Development, Diversity, and Change David Hopley, Scott G. Smithers and Kevin E. Parnell Excerpt More information 1 Geomorphology and the Great Barrier Reef 1.1 Introduction The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the largest coral reef system in the world. It extends from 248 300 S in the south to 98 300 S in the north, a distance of about 2300 km along the north-east shelf of Australia (Fig. 1.1). Accurate estimates of dimensions and other geographical data are available only for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (345 500 km2) or the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (348 000 km2) which also includes islands excluded from the Park. Within this area are 2900 reefs occupying over 20 000 km2 or 9% of the 224 000 km2 shelf area (Hopley et al., 1989). However, this administrative area does not include the contiguous shelf of Torres Strait, data for which are more scant. The Strait is 150 km wide and east of the line of high islands, which link Australia to Papua New Guinea, the shelf has a width of over 200 km. Estimated total shelf area here is about 37 000 km2 and, relying on comparative data from the adjacent Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (which ends at 108 420 S) there may be a further 750 reefs and shoals with a total area of about 6000 km2. The GBR is also one of the best studied in the world. Although first described during James Cook’s voyage of exploration in 1770, because of science’s preoccupation with atolls, it did not become a major focus until after the establishment of the Great Barrier Reef Committee in 1922 and the ground-breaking year-long Royal Society Expedition to Low Isles near Cairns in 1928–29 (see below and Bowen and Bowen, 2002).
  • Download Full Article 1.6MB .Pdf File

    Download Full Article 1.6MB .Pdf File

    Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1962.25.10 ADDITIONS TO MARINE MOLLUSCA 177 1 May 1962 ADDITIONS TO THE MARINE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF SOUTH EASTERN AUSTRALIA INCLUDING DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENUS PILLARGINELLA, SIX NEW SPECIES AND TWO SUBSPECIES. Charles J. Gabriel, Honorary Associate in Gonchology, National Museum of Victoria. Introduction. It has always been my conviction that the spasmodic and haphazard collecting so far undertaken has not exhausted the molluscan species to be found in the deeper waters of South- eastern Australia. Only two large single collections have been made; first by the vessel " Challenger " in 1874 at Station 162 off East Moncoeur Island in 38 fathoms. These collections were described in the " Challenger " reports by Rev. Boog. Watson (Gastropoda) and E. A. Smith (Pelecypoda). In the latter was included a description of a shell Thracia watsoni not since taken in Victoria though dredged by Mr. David Howlett off St. Francis Island, South Australia. In 1910 the F. I. S. " Endeavour " made a number of hauls both north and south of Gabo Island and off Cape Everard. The u results of this collecting can be found in the Endeavour " reports. T. Iredale, 1924, published the results of shore and dredging collections made by Roy Bell. Since this time continued haphazard collecting has been carried out mostly as a hobby by trawler fishermen either for their own interest or on behalf of interested friends. Although some of this material has reached the hands of competent workers, over the years the recording of new species has probably been delayed.
  • Marine Mollusca of Isotope Stages of the Last 2 Million Years in New Zealand

    Marine Mollusca of Isotope Stages of the Last 2 Million Years in New Zealand

    See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232863216 Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia) Article in Journal- Royal Society of New Zealand · March 2011 DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2011.548763 CITATIONS READS 19 690 1 author: Alan Beu GNS Science 167 PUBLICATIONS 3,645 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Integrating fossils and genetics of living molluscs View project Barnacle Limestones of the Southern Hemisphere View project All content following this page was uploaded by Alan Beu on 18 December 2015. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. This article was downloaded by: [Beu, A. G.] On: 16 March 2011 Access details: Access Details: [subscription number 935027131] Publisher Taylor & Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37- 41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t918982755 Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia) AG Beua a GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Online publication date: 16 March 2011 To cite this Article Beu, AG(2011) 'Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia)', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 41: 1, 1 — 153 To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2011.548763 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2011.548763 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Full terms and conditions of use: http://www.informaworld.com/terms-and-conditions-of-access.pdf This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes.
  • (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Turridae) from the Campos Basin, Southeast Brazil

    (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Turridae) from the Campos Basin, Southeast Brazil

    Scientia Marina 74(3) September 2010, 471-481, Barcelona (Spain) ISSN: 0214-8358 doi: 10.3989/scimar.2010.74n3471 Deep-water Drilliinae, Cochlespirinae and Oenopotinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Turridae) from the Campos Basin, southeast Brazil RAQUEL MEDEIROS ANDRADE FIGUEIRA and RICARDO SILVA ABSALÃO Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Fundão, 21941-590 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] SUMMARY: Samples of a soft-bottom community from the continental slope of Campos Basin, off southeast Brazil, were obtained between 2001 and 2003 by the Research Vessel “Astro-Garoupa” with a 0.25 m2 box corer or by dredging with a Charcot dredge. A total of 177 samples were taken at depths ranging from 700 to 1950 m. Mollusks were present at all of the stations and among Gastropoda the Turridae showed the highest diversity. Within the family Cochlespirinae we found: Leucosyrinx tenoceras (Dall, 1889), L. verrillii (Dall, 1881), expanding the known distribution of the latter species farther south, and L.? subgrundifera (Dall, 1888), which is the first record of this species for the South Atlantic and the shallowest depth at which it has ever been found. Within the family Drilliinae we found Splendrillia centimata (Dall, 1889), also the first record of this species for the South Atlantic and its shallowest depth. Within the subfamily Oenopotinae we describe here three new species in the genus Oenopota Mörch, 1852: O. seraphina n. sp., O. diabula n. sp. and O. carioca n. sp. Keywords: deep-water, Turridae, Leucosyrinx, Splendrillia, Oenopota, Southwestern Atlantic, Brazil.