Report on the two subfamilies Clavatulinae and Cochlespirinae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China seas
Author
Li, Baoquan
Author
Li, Xinzheng
text
Zootaxa
2008
1771
31
42
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274268
0eda36ff-c8fb-45da-9b18-47ff29b498d7
1175-5326
274268
Nihonia australis
(
Gmelin, 1791
)
(Figure 14)
Murex australis
Gmelin, 1791
: 3542
.
Pleurotoma australis
(
Gmelin, 1791
)
. Kiener,
1839-40
: 6, pl. 4, fig. 1;
Reeve, 1843
: pl. 2, fig. 14.
Surcula australis
(
Gmelin, 1791
)
. Tryon, 1884: 236, pl. 5, fig. 58.
Turricula australis
(
Gmelin, 1791
)
.
Yen, 1942
: 238
.
Nihonia australis
(
Gmelin, 1791
)
.
Powell, 1969
: 331
, pl. 192, figs. 16, 17, pl. 254, figs. 1, 2.
Material examined. SCS.
(1). 2 spms, CN 58M-327, Xincun (Hainan Province), intertidal zone,
16 April 1958
; (2). 1 spm, CN 54-556, Guangdong, intertidal zone,
4 May 1954
; (3). 1 spm, CN 58-M0293, Yulin Port (Hainan Province), intertidal zone,
10 April 1958
; (4). 1 spms, CN 56-504, Zhapo (Guangdong Province), intertidal zone,
9 April 1956
; (5). 7 spms, CN 58-M0284, Sanya (Hainan Province), intertidal zone,
2 April 1958
; (6). 1 spm,
18°30'N
,
111°30'E
,
182 m
, coll. Xiutong MA,
11 April 1959
; (7). 1 spm,
18°45'N
,
110°00'E
, 122.5 m, clay,
22 April 1959
; (8). 1 spm, CN K240B-61,
18
°00'N,
108°00'E
, 90.8 m, muddy sand, AT,
12 July 1960
; (9). 1 spm, CN N217B-37,
17
°45'N,
108°30'E
,
84 m
, muddy sand, AT,
15 May 1960
; (10). 1 spm, CN K99B-45,
19
°30'N,
112°30'E
,
158 m
, fine sand, AT,
22 October 1959
; (11). 1 spm,
21°15'N
,
110°30'E
, silt,
29 m
, coll. Xiutong MA,
29 January 1959
; (12). 7 spms, CN 58-0327, Xincun (Hainan Province), intertidal zone,
16 April 1958
; (13). 2 spms, CN 24-54,
21
°00'N,
114°30'E
,
85 m
, AT, coll. Guangyu LIN; (14). 2 spms, CN 54-429, Shanwei (Guangdong Province), intertidal zone,
13 April 1954
; (15). 2 spms, CN 55-410, Qinglan (Hainan Province), intertidal zone,
30 March 1955
; (16). 2 spms, CN 58M-794, Xincun (Hainan Province), intertidal zone,
16 April 1958
; (17). 1 spm, CN 22-26,
21
°30'N,
114°30'E
,
74 m
, AT, coll. Weiquan
ZHANG
,
20 March 1959
; (18). 1 spm, CN
18°30'N
,
111°30'E
,
182 m
,
11 April 1958
; (19). 2 spms, CN 55-561, Sanya (Hainan Province), intertidal zone,
16 April 1955
; (20). 1 spm, CN 54-715, Zhapo (Guangdong Province), intertidal zone,
19 April 1954
; (21). 1 spm,
18°45'N
,
111°00'E
, silt, 122.5 m, coll. Xiutong MA,
22 April 1959
.
Measurements
(mm)
| CN Length |
Width |
Aperture |
W/L A/L |
| 58M-327-1 57.5 |
16.8 |
31.4 |
0.29 0.55 |
| 58M-327-2 54.5 |
17.5 |
28.0 |
0.32 0.51 |
| N217B-37 66.5 |
18.8 |
37.5 |
0.28 0.56 |
| K99B-45 42.8 |
13.0 |
23.9 |
0.30 0.56 |
| K240B-61 98.5 |
27.2 |
53.2 |
0.28 0.54 |
Distribution.
Only recorded from SCS up to now.
Remarks.
As a well-known turrid species, this species was once credited to Roissy, 1805 (Kiener
1839- 40
; Tryon 1884;
Powell, 1969
).
Tucker (2004)
revised it. This species was only found in the South
China
Sea so far.
Powell (1969)
suspected the Nagasaki (
Japan
) record to be incorrect since there are no authentic Japanese records of this species in the literature.