Species Phos (Phos) senticosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Light Shell, Pacific Phos
- Phos plicatus Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1853. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts I-VIII) pp. 1-256, pls 1-32. [115].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, Eastern Seas. - Phos scalaroides Adams, A. 1851. A monograph of Phos, a genus of Gasteropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850(18): 152-155 [154].
- Phos angulatus Sowerby, G.B. II 1880. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or Monographs of Genera of Shells. Monograph of the genus Fusus London : Sowerby Vol. 4 pp. 69-97, pls 418-422. [89, sp. 3, pl. 221. fig. 7].
Generic Combinations
- Phos (Phos) senticosus (Linnaeus, 1758). —
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [65]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.
General References
Fraussen, K. & Poppe, G.T. 2005. Revision of Phos and Antillophos (Buccinidae) from the Central Philippines. Visaya 1(5): 76-115 [77, pl. 2, figs 1, 2]
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [65, pl. 10, figs 29a-b]
Common Name References
Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [157, pl. 27, fig. 18] (Light Shell)
Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [142, pl. 143] (Pacific Phos)
History of changes
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