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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Cystiscidae

Persicula multilineata (Sowerby II, 1846)


Range: 16°N ; 88°W
Maximum Reported Size: 11  mm

Details


Marginella multi-lineata Sowerby II, 1846, p. 395, pl. 78, figs. 192-193
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Not stated [Belieze, bay of Honduras, fide Sowerby I (1846: 97)]
Range: 16°N ; 88°W
Maximum Reported Size: 11 mm
Distribution: Belize
References: Sowerby II (1846) NSEW; Keen (1971); Kaicher (1981a: 2685) MT; Boyer, Neefs & Wakefield (1998) V
Comments: Also described by Sowerby I (1846, pp. 96-97, as Marginella multilineata); possibly based on mislocalized Persicula bandera Coan & Roth, 1965 from West Mexico.


Partial List of References

Sowerby, G. B., II. 1846. Monograph of the genus Marginella Thesaurus Conchyliorum 1 373-406, pls. 74-78 [True date: pre Nov 27.]

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