Species Merica purpuriformis (Kiener, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cancellaria purpuriformis Kiener, L.C. 1841. Genre Cancellaire. 9 pls 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 Vol. 6. [37, pl. 7, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.53773 dry, 5-6 km off Eden, New South Wales, Australia [37°4'58.8"S,150°0'0"E].
• Cancellaria tasmanica Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [150].
• Cancellaria maccoyi Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1899. On some new species of Victorian mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 11(2): 179-184, pl. 20 [182, pl. 20, fig. 6].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Garrard, T.A. 1975. A revision of Australian Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 30: 1-62 [15]

Generic Combinations

• Sydaphera purpuriformis (Kiener, 1841). —
  Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [257-258]
• Cancellaria (Sydaphera) purpuriformis Kiener, 1841. —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [175, pl. 37, fig. 18]
• Merica purpuriformis (Kiener, 1841).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 36 m

General References

Garrard, T.A. 1975. A revision of Australian Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum 30: 1-62 [15]

Hemmen, J. 2007. Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden pp. 1-428. [257-258]

Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. 2005. Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) — 2nd edition. Zootaxa 1102: 1-161 [87]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [175]

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