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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Columbellidae

Conella ovulata (Lamarck, 1822)


Range: 26°N to 9.4°N; 90.5°W to 64.8°W
Depth: 0 to 0.3 m
Maximum Reported Size: 20  mm

Synonymy

Colombella ovulata Lamarck, 1822
Conella picata Swainson, 1840
Pyrene ovuloides auct. non C. B. Adams, 1850

Details


Colombella ovulata Lamarck, 1822b, p. 295
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Unknown
Range: 26°N to 9.4°N; 90.5°W to 64.8°W
Depth: 0 to 0.3 m
Maximum Reported Size: 20 mm
Distribution: Mexico: Alacran Reef, Quintana Roo; Honduras: Swan Island; Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela: unlocalized; Bahamas: Abaco (Great or Little); Cuba: North Havana Province, North Matanzas; Jamaica, Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands: St. Croix
References: Olsson & McGinty (1958) S; Usticke (1959) E; Princz (1982a); Fernández Milera (1998); deMaintenon (2005) N

Pyrene ovuloides auct. non C. B. Adams, 1850, 
[Not available]
References: Radwin (1978) s
Comments: Misidentification by Reeve (1859, fig. 2a); Abbott (1974) fig. 2080 [not text].

Conella picata Swainson, 1840, p. 312, fig. 17a
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Not stated
References: Abbott (1958) s


Partial List of References

Lamarck, [J. B.] 1822. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres 7 [iii] + 711 pp. Author: Paris. [Stated date: -- Aug 1822.]
Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on Malacology  viii + 419 pp., frontispiece. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans and John Taylor: London.

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