A revision of the Tertiary Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southeastern Australia

Abstract

Darragh, T.A. 1988. A revision of the Tertiary Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southeastern Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 49: 195-307. The Volutidae of Australia consists of 18 genera or subgenera of which five are known only as fossils and three only in the living fauna. (Twenty other genus group taxa have been syn-onymised.) The fossil genera can be grouped according to their affinity as: The living volutes of the Southern Australian region are almost entirely derived from the Southern Australian Tertiary volute fauna. Twenty-two new species group taxa are proposed: Lyria acuticostulata (E-M Mioc), L. mitraeformis crassicosta (E Pleist.), Mitreoia salapu-tium (L Eoc), Scaphella (Aurinia) johannae