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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Muricoidea: Typhinae

Pterotyphis pinnatus (Broderip, 1833)


Range: 28°N to 9.75°N; 87°W to 74°W
Depth: 2 to 50 m
Maximum Reported Size: 34  mm

Synonymy

Typhis pinnatus Broderip, 1833
Typhis fordi Pilsbry, 1943

Details


Typhis pinnatus Broderip in Broderip & Sowerby, 1833a, p. 178
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Unknown
Range: 28°N to 9.75°N; 87°W to 74°W
Depth: 2 to 50 m
Maximum Reported Size: 34 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: unlocalized; Mexico: Quintana Roo; Costa Rica, Colombia, Bahamas: Bimini
References: Bayer (1971) NW; Robinson & Montoya (1987) {S}; Sunderland (1989c) dM; Díaz & Puyana (1994) E; Espinosa & Ortea (2001a) S

Typhis (Pterotyphis) fordi Pilsbry, 1943b, p. 40, pl. 7, fig. 4
[Synonym]
Type Locality: 5 miles west of Nassau, on the north coast of New Providence
Range: 25°N to 23°N; 82.5°W to 77.4°W
Depth: 30 m
Maximum Reported Size: 17.4 mm
Distribution: Bahamas: New Providence; Cuba: North Havana Province; Jamaica
References: Pilsbry (1943b) NEM; Jaume & Sarasúa (1943) SW; Sarasúa (1944); Aguayo & Jaume (1947a); E. H. Vokes (1989) s


Partial List of References

Broderip, W. J. and G. B. Sowerby. 1833. [The collection of Shells formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America, and among the islands of the Southern Pacific Ocean] Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 2 173-179. [True date: 14 Jan 1833.]
Pilsbry, H. A. 1943. Typhis fordi, a new Bahaman muricid mollusk Nautilus 57 40, pl. 7. [Stated date: -- Oct 1943.]

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