WoRMS taxon details
Nassarius mobilis (Hedley & May, 1908)
572150 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:572150)
accepted
Species
Arcularia mobilis Hedley & May, 1908 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Arcularia mobilis var. costata Hedley & May, 1908 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Nassarius (Hima) mobilis (Hedley & May, 1908) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Nassarius verconis Cotton & Godfrey, 1932 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Reticunassa compacta benthalis Gabriel, 1962 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Reticunassa mobilis (Hedley & May, 1908) · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Reticunassa mobilis plankta Iredale, 1936 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Reticunassa verconis (Cotton & Godfrey, 1932) · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Arcularia mobilis Hedley & May, 1908) Hedley, C.; May, W. L. (1908). Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania. <em>Records of the Australia Museum.</em> 7(2): 108-125; plates 22-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8055917
page(s): 121, pl. 23, fig. 16 [details]
page(s): 121, pl. 23, fig. 16 [details]
Type locality contained in Australian part of the Tasman Sea
type locality contained in Australian part of the Tasman Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Nassarius mobilis (Hedley & May, 1908). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=572150 on 2026-10-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Nassarius verconis Cotton & Godfrey, 1932) Cotton, B. C. & Godfrey, F. K. (1932). South Australian shells (including descriptions of new genera and species). Part IV. <em>The South Australian Naturalist.</em> 13(3): 92-111., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42129382 [details]
original description (of Reticunassa compacta benthalis Gabriel, 1962) Gabriel, C. J. (1962). Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of south eastern Australia including descriptions of new genus Pillarginella, six new species and two subspecies. <i>Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria</i>. 25: 177-210., available online at https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1962.25.10 [details]
original description (of Arcularia mobilis Hedley & May, 1908) Hedley, C.; May, W. L. (1908). Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania. <em>Records of the Australia Museum.</em> 7(2): 108-125; plates 22-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8055917
page(s): 121, pl. 23, fig. 16 [details]
original description (of Arcularia mobilis var. costata Hedley & May, 1908) Hedley, C.; May, W. L. (1908). Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania. <em>Records of the Australia Museum.</em> 7(2): 108-125; plates 22-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8055917
page(s): 121, pl. 23, fig. 17 [details]
original description (of Reticunassa compacta benthalis Gabriel, 1962) Gabriel, C. J. (1962). Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of south eastern Australia including descriptions of new genus Pillarginella, six new species and two subspecies. <i>Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria</i>. 25: 177-210., available online at https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1962.25.10 [details]
original description (of Arcularia mobilis Hedley & May, 1908) Hedley, C.; May, W. L. (1908). Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania. <em>Records of the Australia Museum.</em> 7(2): 108-125; plates 22-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8055917
page(s): 121, pl. 23, fig. 16 [details]
original description (of Arcularia mobilis var. costata Hedley & May, 1908) Hedley, C.; May, W. L. (1908). Mollusca from one hundred fathoms, seven miles east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania. <em>Records of the Australia Museum.</em> 7(2): 108-125; plates 22-25., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8055917
page(s): 121, pl. 23, fig. 17 [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Cernohorsky W.O. (1981). Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18:137-192. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
