Species Harpa major Röding, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Harpa major Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [149].
• Harpa grandiformis Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls. [pl. 40, no.1].
• Harpa vulgaris Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [208].
• Buccinum harpa Wood, W. 1818. Index testaceologicus; or a catalogue of shells, British and foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system; with the Latin and English names. references to figures, and places where found. London : Privately printed 38 pls, 189. [107, pl. 22, fig. 49] [not Linnaeus 1758].
• Harpa conoidalis Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [255].
• Harpa ligata Menke, K.T. 1828. Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum earum quae in museo Menkeano adservantur. Pyrmonti : Georgi Uslar xii + 91 pp. [86].
• Harpa ventricosa conoidalis Kiener, L.C. 1835. 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. 3. [7, pl. 3, fig. 4] [as Harpa ventricosa var. conoidalis Kiener, 1835].
• Harpa striatula Adams, A. 1854. Descriptions of new species of shells, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 21: 173-176 [Date published Dec 1854] [173, pl. 20, figs 7, 8].
• Harpa kawamurai Habe, T. & Kosuge, S. 1967. Shells of the world in colour, II. The tropical Pacific. Osaka : Hoikusha 194 pp. [79, pl. 30, fig. 2, sup pl. 1, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NSMT Mo. 53137, Philippines.

 

Generic Combinations

• Harpialis major (Röding, 1798). —
  Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38] [114]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from eastern Africa to Hawaiian Islands. Additional records from AMS collection: Coral Sea C.324784

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northeast Province (18), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

7-20 m

 

General References

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [42]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [284]

Matsukuma, A. 1986. Studies on the Kawamura collection (Mollusca) in the National Science Museum, Tokyo-III. Genus Tapes Megerle, 1811, with description of a new species. Venus 1 45(1): 11-30 [6]

Poppe, G.T. & Brulet, T. 1999. A Conchological Iconography: The Family Harpidae. Germany : Conchbooks 69 pp., 51 pls. [pl. 22]

Rehder, H.A. 1973. The family Harpidae of the world. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(16): 207-274 [245, pl. 183, pl. 188, figs 8-11; pl 214]

Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls [196]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [137, pl. 30, figs 12a-b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [202] (Greater Harp Shell)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	HARPIDAE	18-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED