Zoila gigas (McCoy, 1867)

Darragh, Thomas A., 2024, A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83, pp. 37-206 : 74

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.02
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scientific name	Zoila gigas (McCoy, 1867)
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Treatment

Zoila gigas (McCoy, 1867) View in CoL

(Type species of Gigantocypraea Schilder, 1927 OD )

Cypraea gigas McCoy, 1867a: 18 View in CoL .— McCoy, 1867b: 194; McCoy, 1867c: 438; Tate, 1890: 212.

Cypraea (Aricia) gigas McCoy. View in CoL — McCoy, 1875b: 19, pl. 15, pl. 16, fig. 2, pls 17, 18, fig. 1; McCoy, 1876: 35, pls 28, 29, fig. 1.

Cypraea dorsata Tate, 1890: 212 View in CoL .— Tate, 1892: pl. 10, fig. 4, pl. 11, fig. 6; Schilder, 1927: 136.

Cypraea gabrieli Chapman, 1912c: 190 View in CoL , pl. 13, figs 1–3.

Umbilia (Gigantocypraea) gigas (McCoy, 1867) .— Schilder, 1927: 86, 136.

? Gigantocypraea gigas (McCoy, 1867) View in CoL .— Schilder, 1930: 126, pl. 12, figs 34, 35 (cast).

Zoila (Gigantocypraea) gigas (McCoy, 1867) View in CoL .— Schilder, 1935: 337, 338, fig. 17; Wilson and Clarkson, 2004: 53, pl. 57.

Zoila gigas (McCoy, 1867) View in CoL .— Darragh, 2011b: 21 View Cited Treatment , Figs 2B, 13E– H, 14A–H, 15A–E.

Distribution. Murray Basin: Morgan Limestone. Otway Basin: Gellibrand Formation, Muddy Creek Formation (type). Port Phillip Basin: Jan Juc Formation, Gellibrand Formation. Casts of what is probably this species found in Eucla Basin: Nullarbor Limestone. Murray Basin: Morgan Limestone. Otway Basin: Gambier Limestone. Port Phillip Basin: Curlewis Limestone. Gippsland Basin: Gippsland Limestone. Age : late Oligocene– middle Miocene.