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Gastropoda: : Tonnoidea: Ranellidae

Argobuccinum pustulosum (Lightfoot, 1786)


Range: 55°S to 55.5°S; 72°W to 0°W
Maximum Reported Size: 86  mm

Synonymy

Buccinum pustulosum Lightfoot, 1786
Murex argus Gmelin, 1791
Ranella polyzonalis Lamarck, 1816
Triton ranelliformis King & Broderip, 1832
Ranella vexillum Sowerby II, 1835
Ranella kingii d'Orbigny, 1841

Details


Buccinum pustulosum Lightfoot, 1786, p. 88, [Rumph, 49. B.]
[Basis of the current name]
Attributed to: Solander (1786)
Type Locality: Not stated

Murex argus Gmelin, 1791, p. 3547-3548, [Rumph. pl.49, f.B; Klein pl.7, f.128; Lesser, f.62; Knorr 5, pl.3, f.3; Chemnitz 4, pl.127, f.1223]
[Synonym]
Type Locality: 'India'
Range: 55°S to 55°S; 72°W to 0°W
Maximum Reported Size: 82 mm
Distribution: Tierra del Fuego, Straits of Magellan, Chile
References: Rehder (1967) s; Castellanos & Landoni (1990) NSEWM

Ranella kingii d'Orbigny, 1841a, p. 451
[Synonym]
Type Locality: près de l'île de la Mocha, au sud du Chili, 4-5 m
References: Castellanos & Landoni (1990) s

Ranella polyzonalis Lamarck, 1816,  pl. 414, figs. 3a-b
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Not stated [l'Océan indien et des Moluques (Lamarck 1822)]
References: Lamarck (1822b) s

Triton ranelliformis King & Broderip, 1832, p. 347, Not figured
[Synonym]
Type Locality: ad Sinum Peñas et oram occidentalem Americae meridionalis
Maximum Reported Size: 81 mm
Distribution: Tierra del Fuego, Chile
References: King & Broderip (1832) M

Ranella vexillum Sowerby II, 1835a,  pl. 84, fig. 3
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Cuming MS
Type Locality: Not stated [Sowerby II (1841b), '(Chiloe) Conception']
Range: 55.5°S to 55.5°S; 68°W
Maximum Reported Size: 86 mm
Distribution: Tierra del Fuego, Chile
References: Sowerby II (1841b) M; Rochebrune & Mabille (1889) NSEW; Henning & Hemmen (1993) s


Partial List of References

d'Orbigny, A. 1841. Mollusques Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale 5 425-488, pls. 72-76, 79-80. P. Bertrand: Paris. [True date: -- --- 1841.]
Gmelin, J. F. 1791. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae. Editio decima tertia Systema Naturae, 13th ed., vol. 1(6) 3021-3910. Lipsiae.
King, P. P. and W. J. Broderip. 1832. Description of the Cirrhipeda, Conchifera and Mollusca, in a collection formed by the officers of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle employed between the years 1826 and 1830 in surveying the southern coasts of South America Zoological Journal 5 332-349.
Lamarck, [J. B.] 1816. Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature  [iii] + 16 pp., pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488. Veuve Agasse: Paris.
Sowerby, G. B., II. 1835. Ranella Conchological Illustrations pls. 84-85 [True date: 15 Sep 1835.]
[Lightfoot, J.] 1786. Catalogue of the Portland Museum  viii + 3-194, frontispiece.

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