MolluscaBase taxon details
Willungia ovulatella (Tate, 1890) †
1033135 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1033135)
accepted
Species
Cypraea ovulatella Tate, 1890 † · unaccepted
Ponticypraea egregia Fehse, Lorenz, Hawke & K. Kovács, 2019 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
(of Cypraea ovulatella Tate, 1890 †) Tate, R. (1890). The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia - Part 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 14(2): 185-235, pls 5-13 [plates 9, 11, 12 published July 1892]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26248902
page(s): 208 [details]
page(s): 208 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Willungia ovulatella (Tate, 1890) †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1033135 on 2025-09-11
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
original description
(of Ponticypraea egregia Fehse, Lorenz, Hawke & K. Kovács, 2019 †) Fehse D., Lorenz F., Hawke A. & Kovacs K. (2019). A peculiar Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Eocene of Australia. <em>Conchylia.</em> 50(1-4): 143-146.
page(s): 144, pl. 1 figs 1-4 [details]
original description (of Cypraea ovulatella Tate, 1890 †) Tate, R. (1890). The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia - Part 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 14(2): 185-235, pls 5-13 [plates 9, 11, 12 published July 1892]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26248902
page(s): 208 [details]
basis of record Darragh, T. A. (2017). Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia. <em>Records of the West Australian Museum.</em> 32 (1): 29-100., available online at https://doi.org/10.18195/issn.0312-3162.32(1).2017.029-100 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. <em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria.</em> 83: 37-206.
page(s): 77 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 144, pl. 1 figs 1-4 [details]
original description (of Cypraea ovulatella Tate, 1890 †) Tate, R. (1890). The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia - Part 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 14(2): 185-235, pls 5-13 [plates 9, 11, 12 published July 1892]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26248902
page(s): 208 [details]
basis of record Darragh, T. A. (2017). Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia. <em>Records of the West Australian Museum.</em> 32 (1): 29-100., available online at https://doi.org/10.18195/issn.0312-3162.32(1).2017.029-100 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. <em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria.</em> 83: 37-206.
page(s): 77 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
