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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Columbellidae

Columbella reticulata Lamarck, 1822
Dubious name; not Western Atlantic?


Details


Columbella reticulata Lamarck, 1822b, p. 295, [Encyc. Method. pl. 375, fig. 2a-b]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Unknown
Comments: Sowerby (1844) and Reeve (1858c) reported the species from Brazil, but it is probably a synonym of the Eastern Atlantic C. rustica (Linnaeus, 1758).


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.]

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