African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Ranella australasia (G. Perry, 1811)

AfReMaS taxon details

Ranella australasia (G. Perry, 1811)

AphiaID

346431 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:346431)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ranella Lamarck, 1816

Original name

Biplex australasia G. Perry, 1811

Synonymised names

Ranella leucostoma Lamarck, 1822 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

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Subspecies Ranella australasia gemmifera (Euthyme, 1889) accepted as Ranella gemmifera (Euthyme, 1889) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of ) 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. W. Miller, London, 4 pp. + 61 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41764832
page(s): pl. 4, figs 2, 4 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ranella australasia (G. Perry, 1811). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=346431 on 2026-09-18

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Ranella australasia (G. Perry, 1811). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=346431 on 2026-09-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-07-10 07:40:34Z

created

Vanhoorne, Bart

2013-06-04 09:33:33Z

checked

Sartori, André F.

2015-01-16 10:00:55Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2020-04-08 20:37:59Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2023-10-06 18:47:44Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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original description (of Ranella leucostoma Lamarck, 1822) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 150 [details]

original description (of ) 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. W. Miller, London, 4 pp. + 61 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41764832
page(s): pl. 4, figs 2, 4 [details]

basis of record OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database. , available online at http://clade.ansp.org/obis/ [details]

additional source Beu, A. G. (1976). Arrival of Semicassis pyrum (Lamarck) and other tonnacean gastropods in the Southern Ocean during Pleistocene time. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 6 (4): 413-432., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.1976.10421483
page(s): 424 [details]

additional source Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 83: 37-206., available online at https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.02
page(s): 84 [details] Available for editors

additional source Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]