Cerithium violaceum Quoy & Gaimard, 1834

Bakker, Piet A. J. & Albano, Paolo G., 2022, Nomenclator, geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Zootaxa 5088 (1), pp. 1-216 : 185

Cerithium violaceum Quoy & Gaimard, 1834

Cerithium violaceum Quoy & Gaimard, 1834: 134 , pl. 55, fig. 22–23.

Triforis violacea ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) — Dunker 1861: 10.

Triforis violaceus ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) — Tryon 1887: 182, pl. 38, fig. 11.

Trifora violacea ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) — Viader 1937: 43.

Triphora violacea ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) — Kuroda & Habe 1952: 91.

Iniforis violaceus ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) — Laseron 1958: 579, fig. 1–5.

Type locality. Papua New Guinea, New Ireland.

Type material. Type material not located so far.

Distribution. Australia ( Laseron 1958; Chang & Wu 2005), Australia, Christmas Island ( Tomlin 1935), Australia, Cocos Islands ( Wells 1994), China ( Feng 1996), China Sea ( Zongguo & Mao 2012), Fiji ( Schmeltz 1874; Tryon 1887; Chang & Wu 2005), Japan ( Dunker 1861; Dunker 1882; Pilsbry 1895; Kuroda & Habe 1952; Higo et al. 1999; Chang & Wu 2005), Marshall Islands ( Kosuge 1990), Mauritius ( Martens 1880; Viader 1937), New Caledonia ( Tryon 1887; Hervier 1898; Hervier 1899; Chang & Wu 2005), New Zealand, Cook Islands ( Schmeltz 1874), Papua New Guinea, New ireland ( Quoy & Gaimard 1834, Kiener 1841; Dunker 1882; Tryon 1887; Laseron 1958), Polynesia ( Martens 1880), Samoa ( Schmeltz 1874), Solomon Islands ( Marshall 1983), Taiwan ( Chang 1997; Chang & Wu 2005; Chang 2006a).