Species Zebinella elegantula (Angas, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rissoina elegantula Angas, G.F. 1880. Further additions to the marine molluscan fauna of South Australia, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 415–417, pl. 40 (pt.) [417, pl. 40, fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1881.4.29.4, Aldinga Bay (South Australia), from shell sand.

 

Generic Combinations

• Peripetella elegantula (Angas, 1880). —
  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 [39]
• Zebinella elegantula (Angas, 1880).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Gabo Island, VIC to Rottnest Island, WA and northern TAS; temperate

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 77 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2010. Rissoina (Rissoina) elegantula Angas, 1880. The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Rissoidae/Pages/Rissoina_(Rissoina)_elegantula.htm (date accessed 23/02/2012)

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 [39]

Laseron, C.F. 1950. Review of the Rissoidae of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 22: 257-287, figs 1-94 [261, fig. 2]

Sleurs, W.J.M. 1992. Een systatische en zoogeografische studie van de Rissoininae (Stimpson, 1865) (Gastropoda: Rissoidae), met inbegrip van een revisie van de recente soorten. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven : Thesis 503 pp. [153-155]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
08-Apr-2025	RISSOOIDEA Gray, 1847	08-Apr-2025	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	19-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	RISSOOIDEA	23-Feb-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		17-Jan-2012	MODIFIED