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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Nassariidae

Nassarius sanctaehelenae (A. Adams, 1852)


Range: 8°S to 16°S; 14.4°W to 5.7°W
Depth: 37 to 37 m
Maximum Reported Size: 10.4  mm

Synonymy

Nassa sanctaehelenae A. Adams, 1852
Hinia sanctaehelenae (A. Adams, 1852) 

Details


Nassa sanctae helenae A. Adams, 1852b, p. 110, not figured [Cernohorsky 1975a, fig. 59]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: St. Helena
Range: 8°S to 16°S; 14.4°W to 5.7°W
Depth: 37 m
Maximum Reported Size: 10.4 mm
Distribution: Ascension Island; Eastern Atlantic: St. Helena
References: A. Adams (1852b) Dd; Reeve (1854a); Rosewater (1975) NSEWM; Cernohorsky (1975a) T
Combining Genera:  Hinia


Partial List of References

Adams, A. 1852. Catalogue of the species of Nassa, a genus of gasteropodous Mollusca belonging to the family Buccinidae, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq., with the description of some new species Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 94-114.

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