Deep-Sea source details
Heliacus implexus (Mighels, 1845) (basis of record)
Neocancilla pretiosa (Reeve, 1844) accepted as Imbricaria pretiosa (Reeve, 1844) (basis of record)
Xenophora (Xenophora) pallidula (Reeve, 1842) represented as Xenophora pallidula (Reeve, 1842) (additional source)
Mascarene Basin for Conus miliaris Hwass, 1792
Mascarene Basin for Fusinus colus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mascarene Basin for Heliacus implexus (Mighels, 1845)
Mascarene Basin for Janthina globosa Swainson, 1822
Mascarene Basin for Neocancilla pretiosa (Reeve, 1844)
Mascarene Basin for Vexillum (Costellaria) modestum (Reeve, 1845)
Mascarene Islands for Xenophora (Xenophora) pallidula (Reeve, 1842)
Placement in family from Richmond, 1997. [details]
Shell up to 6 cm long. The rounded shell is slightly glossy and patterned with brown. The animal is flesy, mottled ... [details]
A squat shell with thick varices and a small, round aperture, up to 5 cm. Anal canal forms a long projecting spout ... [details]
Strawberry Shell Distinctive, small, robust shell with granulated surface, up to 2 cm. Colour brick-red with a ... [details]
Small, squat heavy shell, up to 4 cm, with slight nodules on shoulders of whorls. Colour light, mottled ... [details]
Habitat: rocky shores (Ruwa, 1984). Easily recognisable small, squat shell, up to 5 cm, with a rounded, short ... [details]
Thick shell, up to 5 cm, with low spire and 5 rows of small granules at anterior end of whorl. Colour red with a ... [details]
Thick, heavy shell with flat spire, up to 13 cm. Colour cream with 2-3 axial bands of yellow or orange bands dotted ... [details]
Thick shell, up to 5 cm, with moderate spire and prominent nodules on shoulders of whorls. Colour light yellow to ... [details]
A thick shell, up to 9 cm, with slightly raised spire and nodular shoulders of whorls. Overall colour pattern pale ... [details]
A small, solid cone up to 5 cm, with flattish spire, rounded shoulders and several spiral ridges around base of ... [details]
Highly Dangerous - live specimens should be handled with extreme caution. Shell with moderately high spire and ... [details]
Heavy shell with rugged, knobbly exterior and pointed apex, up to 10 cm. Whorls with two prominent varices, outer ... [details]
A thick, solid, nodular shell, up to 8 cm, with a long, upwardly bent siphonal canal. Exterior dirty grey with ... [details]
A long, solid, cylindrical shell, up to 13 cm, with a straight, narrow aperture. Dorsally light honey-coloured ... [details]
A conspicuous, solid, thick, heavy shell, up to 17 cm, with a narrow aperture. Dorsally reddish with 3 or 4 broad ... [details]
A large bulky sea hare, notable by its trancated, flattened and sloping posterior, up to 20 cm long. Body colour is ... [details]
Habitat: rocky shores Thick, globose shell, up to 5 cm, with low spire, large body whorl and flat base. Colour ... [details]
A moderately high-spired shell, up to 4 cm. Body whorl with five spiral rows of prominent tubercles separately by ... [details]
Description as for family with conspicuous vertical scales, up to 5 cm. Colour white. Habitat: shallow substrates. ... [details]
Fin-shaped shell with coarse ribs, up to 2 cm. Colour reddish-brown or white. Habitat: shallow sublittoral on ... [details]
Distinctive shell, up to 20 cm, with six projections (including the long siphonal canal). Colour white, with brown ... [details]
High spired shell, up to 7 cm, with angular nodules on spiral ridges; lip with fine teeth and ridges. Colour cream ... [details]
Tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details]
Shell up to 8 cm, with tall spire, moderately wide siphonal canal and the typical posterior notch in the outer lip. ... [details]
Shell up to 4 cm, with conspicuous flattened, cup-like scales interspersed by small, regular rows of nodules. ... [details]
The shell is long and narrow, moderately raised, with prominent oval opening from the centre to the anterior edge, ... [details]
Similar to Tonna with thicker shells, narrower aperture and toothed outer lip, up to 6 cm. Habitat: deep water. ... [details]
Thick, heavy shell, up to 3 cm, with moderate sutures between rounded whorls. Prominent, large columellar tooth and ... [details]
Habitat: rocky shores A compact, heavy shell, up to 2 cm, covered in large, rounded, brown-black nodules on white ... [details]
Solid, yellowish shell, up to 15 cm, with a long siphonal canal and numerous long, slightly curved spines. ... [details]
Compact shell, up to 2cm, surface sculpture a distinctive fine network of evenly-spaced nodules. Columella narrow ... [details]
Habitat: muddy shore Thick shells, up to 3 cm, with transverse rows of large nodules (most prominent on shoulders ... [details]
Habitat: muddy shore Up to 3 cm, similar to N. arcularia plicatus, but with more elongated spire, a smooth surface ... [details]
Habitat: rocky cliffs, sometimes mangrove trees (Ruwa, 1984). Up to 4 cm, shell surface smooth or with slight ... [details]
Habitat: rocky cliffs (Ruwa, 1984). Globose shell, up to 3 cm, with well-marked ridges. Columella with three ... [details]
Habitat: rocky cliffs (Ruwa, 1984). Up to 5 cm, surface texture of broad, ridged, spiral cords. Thick, granulose ... [details]
Habitat: rocky cliffs (Ruwa, 1984 <109>). Up to 4 cm, with radial ridges on the shell surface; columella with three teeth. ... [details]
Robust, domed shell, up to 2cm long, with pointed apex and fine radiating ridges. Grey-white exterior, buff-grey ... [details]
Moderately large, globular shell with a short, pointed spire, up to 12 cm. Outer lip thickened and denticulate ... [details]
Up to 2 cm, higher and more acute spire than P. nivosa. Colour variable, often pale with reddish-brown and white ... [details]
Similar to P. trapezium, but with a much taller spire and longer siphonal canal; up to 15 cm. Colour light to dark ... [details]
Habitat: attached to rocks among algae. Tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details]
Parasitic in sea star Linckia guildingi. [details]
Shell triangular, up to 8 cm. Resembling those of Conus species but with heavy axial striae and a thick, incurved ... [details]
As T. nebulosa. Up to 14 cm, with prominent row of small, grooved nodules along the top margin of whorls. Colour ... [details]
Shell as T. crenulata, up to 13 cm, but lacking distinct grooves and nodules. Colour characteristically orange to ... [details]
A large, thin, globose shell, up to 12 cm, with short spire and deep suture. Pale brown with lighter and darker ... [details]
As T. canaliculata, but shell less inflated, columella much reduced, up to 15 cm. Colour pale to dark brown, ... [details]
Small, ovate to globular shell, up to 1 cm, with fine dorsal ribs leaving a longitudinal groove at its centre. ... [details]
Silver-mouthed Turban up to 8 cm, main body whorl with 20 distinct spiral ribs, mostly flat-topped, some with ... [details]
Distinctive shell, up to 18 cm, bearing blunt tubercles, especially strong on shoulders. Colour greyish-green. ... [details]
As T. argyrostomus, but no fluted scales and usually green in colour. (Richmond, 1997). [details]
Solid, rounded shells, up to 2 cm wide, similar to Oxystele (above) but more flattened and with a glossy, highly ... [details]
With strongly ribbed surface, up to 2 cm wide. Habitat: under stones in lower eulittoral and sublittoral. ... [details]
Habitat: muddy shore (Ruwa, 1984 <109>). Up to 3 cm. Grey to greyish-brown, sometimes streaked with pale grey or ... [details]
Cited as Ctenocardia victor (Angas, 1872) by Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988) [details]
Publication date 1830 in Dautzenberg, 1929 [details]
Year of description: 1832 in Dautzenberg, 1929 [details]
Described in 1790 according to Dautzenberg, 1929. [details]
Acteon is placed in family Acteonidae by Sheppard (1984) and Harasewych (1997), which is synonym with Pupidae ... [details]
Also Lampadopsis rhodostoma in Vine, 1986 . [details]
subgenus Chrysame (Dautzenberg, 1923) [details]
Possibly belongs to Turritellidae or Trichotropidae (not clear from <112>) [details]
Described by Lamarck according to Dautzenberg, 1923 [details]
C. tectum sinense (Chemniz) in Spry, 1961. [details]
spelled D. auricularis in Vine,1986 . [details]
Genus name misspelled in <112> (only with this species, not in index). [details]
V. dehayesi in Michel 1988. Also subgenus Costellaria in Vine, 1986 . [details]
V. exasperata in Vine, 1989. In subgenus Costellaria in Vine, 1989 and Odhner, 1919. [details]
spelled V. unifasciale in Vine, 1986 . [details]
