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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Calyptraeoidea: Capulidae

Trichotropis bicarinata (Sowerby I, 1825)


Range: 79.63°N to 56°N; 92°W to 0°W
Depth: 10 to 475 m (live 95 to 300 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 37  mm

Synonymy

Turbo bicarinatus Sowerby I, 1825
Trichotropus sowerbiensis Lesson, 1832
Trichotropis tenuis E. A. Smith, 1877
Trichotropis hjorti Friele, 1903

Details


Turbo bicarinatus Sowerby I, 1825, p. xii-xiii
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Newfoundland
Range: 72°N to 56°N; 92°W to 22°W
Depth: 10 m
Maximum Reported Size: 37 mm
References: Macpherson (1971) dNW

Trichotropis hjorti Friele, 1903, 
[Synonym]
References: Grieg (1909) s

Trichotropus sowerbiensis Lesson, 1832, 
[Synonym]
References: Macpherson (1971) s

Trichotropis tenuis E. A. Smith, 1877b, p. 135-136, text-fig.
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Off Cape Louis Napolean, Grinnel Land, West Greenland, 79°38'N, 25 fathoms
Range: 79.63°N to 69.5°N; 69.22°W to 0°W
Depth: 40 to 475 m (live 95 to 300 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 33 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Eastern Atlantic: Iceland
References: E. A. Smith (1877) NM; Macpherson (1971) s; Thorson (1944) Ll{M}; Warén (1991) DdSEW; Bouchet & Warén (1993)
Comments: Some authors classify the Atlantic form as Trichotropis bicarinata tenuis, with the Eastern Pacific form being the nominate subspecies.


Partial List of References

Smith, E. A. 1877. On the Mollusca collected during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)20 131-146. [Stated date: -- Aug 1877.]
Sowerby, G. B. 1825. A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville  [v] + 92 + xxxiv. G. B. Sowerby: London.

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