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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Calyptraeoidea: Capulidae

Trichotropis borealis Broderip & Sowerby, 1829


Range: 82°N to 42.5°N; 140°W to 0°W
Depth: 2 to 574 m (live 2 to 192 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 22  mm

Synonymy

Trichotropis borealis Broderip & Sowerby, 1829
Trichotropis costellata Couthouy, 1838
Fusus umbilicatus J. Smith, 1839
Trichotropis atlantica Möller, 1842
Trichotropis inermis Hinds, 1843
Fusus laskeyi Macgillivray, 1843
Trichotropis acuminata Jeffreys, 1867
Trichotropis saintjohnensis Verkrüzen, 1877
Trichotropis turrita Leche, 1878
Trichotropis calcarea Thorson, 1944
Trichotropis villosa Thorson, 1944

Details


Trichotropis borealis Broderip & Sowerby, 1829, p. 375
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Oceano boreali, prope Insulam Melville; Oban, Argyleshire; Icy Cape
Range: 82°N to 42.5°N; 140°W to 0°W
Depth: 2 to 574 m (live 2 to 192 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 22 mm
Distribution: Greenland: North Greenland, West Greenland, East Greenland; Davis Strait, Canada: Nunavut, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Labrador, Quebec; USA: Maine, Massachusetts; Eastern Atlantic: Iceland
References: Posselt & Jensen (1899) {D}; Procter (1933) S; Macpherson (1971) LlWM; Clarke (1974) D; Fretter & Graham (1981) E; Schiötte (1989) dlN

Trichotropis acuminata Jeffreys, 1867, 
[Synonym]
References: E. A. Smith (1877b) s

Trichotropis atlantica Möller, 1842a, p. 85
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Beck
Type Locality: [West] Greenland
Depth: 55 to 109 m
Maximum Reported Size: 13 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland
References: Möller (1842a) M; E. A. Smith (1877b) s; Schiötte & Warén (1992) Dd

Trichotropis borealis var. calcareus Thorson, 1944, p. 46-47, fig. 6a
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Kap Hedlund and other inner fiords, East Greenland
Depth: 17 to 14 m (live 17 to 14 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 16.6 mm
Distribution: Greenland: East Greenland
References: Thorson (1944) DdM

Trichotropis costellatus Couthouy, 1838, p. 108-110, pl. 3, fig. 2
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Between Cape Ann and Cape Cod (ex pisces)
Range: 42.6°N ; 70.5°W
Depth: 37 to 110 m
Maximum Reported Size: 19 mm
Distribution: USA: Massachusetts
References: Couthouy (1838) M; Gould (1841) s; E. A. Smith (1877) s; Clarke (1954a) DdNSEW

Trichotropis inermis Hinds, 1843, p. 18
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Sitka, North-west America
Maximum Reported Size: 15.5 mm
References: Hinds (1843) M; E. A. Smith (1877b) s

Fusus laskeyi Macgillivray, 1843, p. 63, 170, [Laskey, Wern. Mem., pl. 8, fig. 9]
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Deep water off Aberdeen, Scotland
Maximum Reported Size: 6 mm
References: MacGillivray (1843) M; E. A. Smith (1877b) s

Trichotropis borealis var. St. Johnensis Verkrüzen, 1877, p. 56
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Hafen und Engen
Distribution: Canada: Newfoundland

Trichotropis borealis var. turrita Leche, 1878, p. 46
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: Two stations on Novaya Zemlya

Fusus umbilicatus J. Smith, 1839, 
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Brown MS
References: E. A. Smith (1877b) s

Trichotropis borealis var. villosa Thorson, 1944, p. 46-47, figs. 6c-d
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Kangerdlugssuak and Uttental Sund, East Greenland
Depth: 14 to 70 m
Maximum Reported Size: 12.1 mm
Distribution: Greenland: East Greenland
References: Thorson (1944) DdM


Partial List of References

Broderip, W. J. and G. B. Sowerby. 1829. Observations on new or interesting Mollusca contained, for the most part, in the museum of the Zoological Society Zoological Journal 4 359-379, pl. 9. [Stated date: -- Jan 1829.]
Couthouy, J. P. 1838. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, and remarks on several polypi found in Massachusetts Bay Boston Journal of Natural History 2 53-111, pls. 1-3. [Stated date: -- Feb 1838.]
Hinds, R. B. 1843. [On new species of shells collected by Sir Edward Belcher, C. B.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 11 17-19.
Leche, W. 1878. Öfversigt öfver de af Svenska Expeditionerna till Novaja Semlja och Jenissej 1875 och 1876 Insamlade: Hafs-Mollusker Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar (2)16(2) 1-86, pls. 1-2. [Stated date: 12 Mar 1878.]
MacGillivray, W. 1843. A History of the Molluscous Animals of the Counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine, and Banff  xxiv + 372 pp. London. [True date: post 6 Mar.]
Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4 76-97.
Thorson, G. 1944. The Zoology of East Greenland. Marine Gastropoda Prosobranchiata Meddelelser om Gro/nland 121(13) 181 pp. [Stated date: 06 Jul 1944.]
Verkrüzen, T. A. 1877. Liste der von T. A. Verkrüzen in 1876 in Neufundland und Nova Scotia gesammelten Mollusken Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 9 52-57. [Stated date: -- Jul 1877.]

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