''Epideira quoyi'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Epideira quoyi (Desmoulins, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1056357 on 2021-03-27]
Description
The length of the shell attains 25 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is
endemic to
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
and occurs off
South Australia,
Tasmania and
Victoria.
References
Further reading
* Desmoulins, C. 1842. ''Révision de quelques espèces de Pleurotomes''. Actes de la Société Linnéene de Bordeaux 12: 109–185
* Tryon, G.W. 1884. ''Conidae & Pleurotomidae.'' Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 6.
* Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1900. ''Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Part III''. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 12(2): 170–205
* Verco, J.C. 1909. ''Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII''. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293–342
* Hedley, C. 1922. ''A revision of the Australian Turridae''. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295
External links
Kiener, L.C. 1839–1840. Genre Pleurotome (Pleurotoma Lam.). 1–84, pls 1–27 in Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau Vol. 5.*
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295
quoyi
Gastropods of Australia
Gastropods described in 1842
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