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Gastropoda: : Cerithioidea: Planaxinae

Supplanaxis nucleus (Bruguière, 1789)


Range: 32.3°N to 9.4°N; 87°W to 59.6°W
Depth: 0 to 3 m (live 0 to 3 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 17  mm

Synonymy

Buccinum nucleus Bruguière, 1789
Planaxis nucleus (Bruguière, 1789) 
Purpura nucleus (Bruguière, 1789) 
Planaxis semisulcatus Sowerby I, 1823
Planaxis nucleolus Mörch, 1876

Details


Buccinum nucleus Bruguière, 1789, p. 254-255, [Lister pl. 976, fig. 32]
[Basis of the current name]
Attributed to: Chemnitz (1780), Lamarck (1822)
Type Locality: Barbados
Range: 32.3°N to 9.4°N; 87°W to 59.6°W
Depth: 0 to 3 m (live 0 to 3 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 17 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida; Mexico: Quintana Roo; Honduras: Swan Island; Colombia: Offshore islands; Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela: Gulf of Venezuela, Zulia, Falcon, Carabobo, Sucre, Islas Los Roques, Isla Margarita; Bermuda, Bahamas: Abaco (Great or Little); Cuba: Pinar del Rio, North Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba; Cayman Islands: Little Cayman, Cayman Brac; Jamaica, Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands: St. Croix; St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Grenada; Barbados; Trinidad & Tobago: Tobago
References: Dautzenberg (1900); M. Smith (1941) N; Olsson & McGinty (1958) S; J. B. Lewis (1960) E; Princz (1978b); Hemmen & Hemmen (1979) {D}; Houbrick (1987b) c; Díaz & Puyana (1994) {M}; Fernández Milera (1998); Macsotay & Campos (2001) DL; Redfern (2001) M
Comments: M. Smith (1941) 26.7°N in Florida.
Combining Genera:  Planaxis Purpura

Planaxis nucleola Mörch, 1876a, p. 126
[Synonym]
Type Locality: St. Croix
Range: 17.7°N ; 64.8°W
Maximum Reported Size: 8 mm
Distribution: Virgin Islands: St. Croix
References: Mörch (1876a) NSEWM

Planaxis semisulcatus Sowerby I, 1823a,  pl. 208, fig. 3
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Not stated
Range: 19°N to 13.3°N; 77°W to 61.3°W
Distribution: Cuba, Jamaica, Dominica; St. Vincent & the Grenadines: St. Vincent
References: Rigacci (1866) W; Arango (1880) N; Higgins & Marrat (1877) SE; Sowerby (1884) s


Partial List of References

Bruguière, [J.-G.] 1789. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle des Vers Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle des Vers 1 1-344. Panckoucke: Paris.
Mörch, O. A. L. 1876. Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium imprimis insularum danicarum Malakozoologische Blätter 23 45-58, 87-143.
Sowerby, G. B. 1823. The Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells 12  6 pls. G. B. Sowerby: London. [True date: pre Feb 3.]

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