Named after Ellen Strong, curator of Mollusca at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, ... [details]

Named after He Jing, who brought the species to the author's attention, and who is admired for being a major ... [details]

Named after Jessica Marin (Italy), artist and naturalist. [details]

Named after Sarah Samadi (MNHN), lead investigator on the BIOPAPUA-cruise and a driving force behind many MNHN ... [details]

Named after Mike Severns (HI, USA), who illustrated the species for the first time [as Hastula rufopunctata] in ... [details]

Named for the type locality, the island of New Ireland. Ireland was designated Hibernia in classic Roman language. [details]

Named after Paula Pereira, wife of Jose Rosado, who frequently accompanies him on dredging trips off the Mozambican ... [details]

Named for the type locality, Comboyura Point on Moreton Island, SE Queensland, Australia. [details]

Named after King Kamehameha I (c. 1736?-1819) who conquered and unified the various island and chieftains of the ... [details]

Named after James Cosmo Melvill, who co-authored Terebra andamanica with Ernest Ruthven Sykes and who was able to ... [details]

Named after Ernest Ruthven Sykes, who co-authored Terebra andamanica with James Cosmo Melvill and in recognition of ... [details]

On behalf of MolluscaBase editors, the species is named after Wim Decock, since 2008 a member of the WoRMS Database ... [details]

Named after French Navy officer and explorer Commodore Jean François de Galaup, Count of Lapérouse (23 August ... [details]

Named after Doug Thorn, who has supplied the conchological community with self-collected, -dredged or -trawled ... [details]

Named after Pascale Joannot, longtime director of the Nouméa Aquarium (New Caledonia) and later at the MNHN as ... [details]

Named after Bétrice Quinet, a medical doctor in active life, and now a volunteer in the molluscs’ molecular ... [details]

Named after Alexander Fedosov, correspondent member at the MNHN and currently Senior Curator at the Swedish Museum ... [details]

Named after Jan Paul Buijs (The Netherlands) who personally collected some of the type material at the type ... [details]

Named after Jeff and Silvia Kinch, who made the KAVIENG 2014-expeditions possible and successful. [details]

Named after Max Marow (Australia), whose parents collected the specimens firsthand, and who is an authority on ... [details]

Named after Olivier Pascal, joint leader (2006-2018) of La Planète Revisitée / Our Planet Reviewed expeditions ... [details]

Named after Emmanuel Vassard, volunteer and diver during many MNHN-expeditions in three oceans. [details]

Named after Jean-François Bernardet, a microbologist in active life, and now a volunteer in the molluscs’ ... [details]

Named after Klaus Groh, a lifelong friend of the author, founder of the publishing house ConchBooks, and a ... [details]

Named after Roland Houart, editor of the magazine Novapex of the Société Belge de Malacologie, eminent and ... [details]

Named after Stephane Hourdez, naturalist, polychaete taxonomist and diver, explorer of hot vents/cold seeps ... [details]

Named after Italian conchologist and naturalist Giuseppe Liuzzi, who has been a major driving force for years in ... [details]

Named after Richard Y. Kirk from Philadelphia (PA, USA) for his enduring support to the Department of Malacology at ... [details]

Named after Sergio Cândido Veiga, long time friend of José Rosado, with whom he made his first scuba dives to ... [details]

Australia: Queensland, Dingo Beach, intertidal. [details]

Indonesia: Flores, E Nusa Tenggara, Larantuka, low tide. [details]

Papua New Guinea: Kavieng Lagoon, Nago Island wharf, 02°36.3’S, 150°46.2’E, 3-12 m [Expedition KAVIENG 2014 ... [details]

Papua New Guinea: New Ireland, 02°34'S, 150°40'E, 147-151 m [Expedition KAVIENG 2014 Stn DW4414]. [details]

Hawaiian Islands: Oahu, Ewa, 100 feet, sand. [details]

Tanzania: Dar-Es-Salaam area, low tide. [details]

South China Sea: trawled off Hainan by commercial fishermen between 120 and 200 m. [details]

N off New Caledonia: Grand Passage, 18°58.1’S, 163°14.9’E, 432-448 m [Expedition CONCALIS Stn CP2959]. [details]

Papua New Guinea: New Ireland, W of Kavieng, E of Tsalui Island, 100-200 m. [details]

Mozambique: off NE Inhaca Island, 92-96 m. [details]

Hawaiian Islands: Oahu, off Kahe Point, dredged at 10 m. [details]

Madagascar: off Narinda Bay, 14°31.90'S, 47°26.54'E, 46-54 m [Expedition MIRIKY Stn CP3288] [details]

Mozambique: Maputo Bay, off Inhaca port, 26°0'0''S, 32°54.4'E, 4 m [Expedition INHACA 2011 Stn MR15]. [details]

Papua New Guinea: New Ireland, 02°43'S, 150°36'E, 93-149 m [Expedition KAVIENG 2014 Stn DW4473]. [details]

Vanuatu: 20°20’S, 169°49’E, 360-408 m [Expedition MUSORSTOM 8 Stn DW964]. [details]

New Caledonia: Kouakoué Canyon, 21°53'S, 166°50'E, 211-440 m [Expedition EXBODI Stn CP3821]. [details]

Papua New Guinea: New Ireland, 02°26’S, 149°54’E, 240-242 m [Expedition KAVIENG 2014 Stn DW4485]. [details]

Papua New Guinea: off New Ireland, 04°48’S, 150°49'E, 325-360 m [Expedition BIOPAPUA Stn DW3768]. [details]

S New Caledonia: 22°31’S, 167°37’E, 410-420 m [Expedition SMIB 2 Stn DW23]. [details]

Papua New Guinea: Kavieng Lagoon, Kavieng Harbour, opposite main wharf, 02°35'05''S, 150°47'17''E, 18 m ... [details]

Red Sea: Egypt, 24 km S of Safaga, Gassus Bay, 0-4 m. [details]

Papua New Guinea: New Ireland, Kavieng Lagoon, Senta Pass, 02°34.4'S, 150°32.3'E, 9-30 m [Expedition KAVIENG ... [details]

S Madagascar: Androy Region, off Lavanono. [details]

SW Madagascar: Toliara area. [details]

Australia: N Western Australia, Karratha, intertidal. [details]

Papua New Guinea: New Ireland. 02°45'S, 150°43’E, 209 m [Expedition KAVIENG 2014 Stn DW4477] [details]

Vanuatu: W Tangoa Island, 15°35.4'S, 166°58.7'E, 3-8 m [Expedition SANTO2006 Stn LD28].  [details]

Papua New Guinea: New Ireland, 02°43'S, 150°36’E, 90-228 m [Expedition KAVIENG 2014 Stn DW4465]. [details]

Papua New Guinea: Madang area, S Yabob Island, 05°15'30''S, 145°46'50''E, 2-6 m [Expedition PAPUA NIUGINI Stn PD67]. [details]

Papua New Guinea: Bismarck Sea, N off Vanimo, 02°38’S, 141°18’E, 335 m [Expedition PAPUA NIUGINI Stn CP4059]. [details]

Japan: Miyazaki Prefecture, off Kitaura, Bungo Channel. [details]

New Ireland Province, W off Kavieng, 02°34.8’S, 150°42.9’E, 94-95 m [KAVIENG 2014 Stn DW4506]. [details]

French Polynesia: Marquesas Islands, off Ua Pou, 09°25.4’S, 140°07.9’W, 70-72 m [Expedition MUSORSTOM 9 Stn ... [details]

Papua New Guinea: Madang area. [details]

Papua New Guinea: Solomon Sea, SE New Britain, Ainto Bay, 06°05'S, 149°18'E, 240-250 m [Expedition MADEEP Stn CP4335]. [details]

Fiji Islands, NW side of Taveuni Island, off the Garden Island Resort, 25 m. [details]

Philippines: Mindanao, off Aliguay island, 100-150 m. [details]

Off Sri Lanka, Palk Strait, trawled at 30-40 m. [details]

Mozambique: Nampula Province, Cabaceira Channel, 10-24 m. [details]

NW Mindanao: off Aliguay Island, trawled at 50-150 m. [details]

Mozambique: off Inhaca Island, dredged at 80-90 m. [details]