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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Bivalvia: Euheterodonta: Lucinoidea: Ungulinidae

Felaniella vilardeboana (d'Orbigny, 1842)


Range: 21°S to 42°S; 0°W to 40.5°W
Depth: 25 to 77 m
Maximum Reported Size: 25  mm

Synonymy

Lucina vilardeboana d'Orbigny, 1842
Diplodonta platensis Borchert, 1901
Diplodonta camaronesia Ihering, 1907

Details


Lucina vilardeboana d'Orbigny, 1842d, p. 587 [1846], pl. 84, figs. 14-15 [1842]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Not stated [environs de Maldonado, au nord de l'embouchure de la Plata [Uruguay] (d'Orbigny 1846)]
Range: 21°S to 42°S; 40.5°W
Depth: 25 to 77 m
Maximum Reported Size: 25 mm
Distribution: Uruguay
Comments: Spelled vilardeboana on the plate in 1842; vilardeboaena in the text in 1846.

Diplodonta villardeboaena [sic] var. camaronesia Ihering, 1907, p. 290, Not figured
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Camarones [Chubut Province]
Maximum Reported Size: 15 mm
References: Ihering (1907) M
Comments: Described as a fossil; Lower Miocene according to Parodiz (1996).

Diplodonta platensis Borchert, 1901, p. 214-215, pl. 9, figs. 4-6
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Paraná-Stufe, Argentina
Maximum Reported Size: 12 mm
References: Borchert (1901) M; Ihering (1907) s
Comments: Non Dall (1899). Described as a fossil.

Lucina vilardeboaena sic, 
[Not available]
Comments: Misspelling by d'Orbigny (1845b).

Diplodonta villardeboaena sic, 
[Not available]
Comments: Misspelling by Ihering (1907).


Partial List of References

Borchert, A. 1901. Die Molluskenfauna und das Alter der Paraná-Stufe Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie, Beilage 14 171-245, pls. 6-10. [True date: pre 11 July.]
d'Orbigny, A. 1842. Mollusques Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale 5 pls. 83-85. P. Bertrand: Paris. [True date: -- --- 1842.]
Ihering, H. von. 1907. Les Mollusques fossiles du Tertiare et du Crétacé Supérieur de l'Argentine Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires (3)7 xiii + 611 pp., 18 pls.

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