Genus Zebinella Mörch, 1876

Museums

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• Zebinella Mörch, O.A.L. 1876. Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium. Malakozoologische Blätter 23: 87-143 [47].

  Type species:

   Helix decussata Montagu, 1803 by subsequent designation, see Martens, E. von 1878. Mollusca. Zoological Record 13 (1876): 1-62 [30].

Introduction

Currently recognised as valid but treated as a junior synonym of Rissoina by Ponder (1985) and Sluers (2022), the latter noting that a detailed phylogenetic analysis of the rissoinid
genus-group taxa is needed to clarify the status of Zebinella.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Ponder, W.F. 1985. A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 4: 1-221 [79]

Sleurs, W.J.M. 2022. Rissoina ponderi n. sp. (Caenogastropoda: Rissoinidae) a new endemic species from New South Wales and a comparison with the related species Rissoina elegantula Angas, 1880. Molluscan Research 42(3): 221-228 [227]

History of changes