Deatils of South East Queensland Shells

Shell: moderately small to medium, ovate to pyriform , ranging from 34-68 mm. Spire concealed. Teeth: 18 to 27 columellar teeth; 20 to 28 labral teeth. Sculpture: smooth, porcelaneous. Aperture elongate, narrow. Exterior colour tan crossed by three dark brown axial band; dorsum covered in diffuse white spots of varying size; base cream; margins darker, becoming dark brown with numerous striations towards the dorsum. Mantle line indistinct.

Specimens

Myora light, Australia
Size: 53.66mm Collected: 1989
under large coral slabs in 1m of water 0.4m tide

forma: orcina (Iredale, 1931)
This form from S QLD- New Zealand. Calloused; extremities blunt; dorsal window narrow.
Myora light, Australia
Size: 42.47mm Collected: 1998
Under rocks on intertidal reef at low tide.

Caloundra [Nth Headland], Australia
Size: 57.67mm Collected: 1987
found under a rock on rocky reef at low tide. The area is in the wave crash zone at high tide level dead juvenile C. vitellus found

Curtain Artificial Reef, Australia
Size: mm Collected: 2000
found dead in sand in 25m of water, on artificial reef

forma: orcina Iredale, 1931

Peel Island, Australia
Size: 46.1mm Collected: Unknown
No data.

Lamont Reef, Australia
Size: 42.59mm Collected: 2019
Under rocks on weather edge of reef. At low tide.

Sykes Reef, Australia
Size: 34.67mm Collected: 2019
Under coral rock on weather edge of reef at low tide.

Sykes Reef, Australia
Size: 41.41mm Collected: 2019
On intertidal reef under dead coral slab. Common in the area

Mackerel Reef 21-466, Australia
Size: 68.32mm Collected: 2011
On reef at 5-20m depth.

Dingo Beach, Australia
Size: 58.89mm Collected: Unknown
On reef at 5-20m depth.

North West Cape, Australia
Size: 28.9mm Collected: 1975
No data.

South Muiron Island, Australia
Size: 47.9mm Collected: Unknown
Collected from under rocks on coral reef at 1-3 m.

Mornington Island, Australia
Size: 65.51mm Collected: 1991
Trawled at 38 m.

General Store, Solomon Islands
Size: mm Collected: 2000
found dead in 5m of water on coral reef

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Size: 43.49mm Collected: 1983
No data.

forma: polynesiae F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1939

Nadi, Fiji
Size: 39.36mm Collected: Unknown
Collected from under slabs on shallow reef by Hookah diver.