Gibberula subbulbosa

Gibberula subbulbosa, common name the toothed margin shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.

Gibberula subbulbosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Cystiscinae
Genus: Gibberula
Species:
G. subbulbosa
Binomial name
Gibberula subbulbosa
(Tate, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Marginella subbulbosa Tate, 1878
  • Marginella beddomei Petterd, 1884
  • Phyloginella simplex Laseron, C. 1957

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia

References

    • Tate, R. 1878. The Recent Marginellidae of South Australia. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide 1877-78: 85-89
    • Petterd, W. 1884. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Journal of Conchology 4: 135-145
    • Cotton, B.C. 1944. Australian margin shells: Marginellidae. South Australian Naturalist 22(4): 9-16
    • Laseron, C. 1957. A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian Zoogeographical Provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8(3): 274–311, figs 1-84
    • Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R.T. 1977. Standard Catalog of Shells. Greenville, Delaware : American Malacologists 3rd.
    • Lipe, R. 1991. Marginellas. Florida : The Shell Store Vol. 1.
    • Hewish, D.R. & Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Mollusc type specimens in the South Australian Museum. 4. Gastropoda: Marginellidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 25(1): 57-70
    • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.


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