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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Buccinidae

Neptunea brevicauda (Deshayes, 1832)


Range: 68°N to 44°N; 70°W to 0°W
Depth: 2 to 260 m (live 128 to 128 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 72  mm

Synonymy

Fusus brevicauda Deshayes, 1832
Colus brevicauda (Deshayes, 1832) 
Tritonium schantaricum Middendorff, 1849
Buccinofusus spitzbergensis (Reeve, 1855) 
Aulacofusus spitzbergensis (Reeve, 1855) 
Colus spitzbergensis (Reeve, 1855) 
Fusus spitzbergensis Reeve, 1855
Neptunea terebralis Gould, 1860
Fusus lividus Mörch, 1862

Details


Fusus brevicauda Deshayes, 1832,
[Basis of the current name]
References: Bouchet & Warén (1985) c
Combining Genera:  Colus

Fusus lividus Mörch, 1862, 
[Synonym]
Range: 56°N to 47°N; 60°W
Maximum Reported Size: 57 mm
References: Verrill (1882a) M; Bouchet & Warén (1985) s

Tritonium (Fusus) schantaricum Middendorff, 1849b, p. 475-476, [Middendorff 1851, pl. 10, figs. 7-9]
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Schantarinseln; Insel des heil. Paul im Behringsmeere
Maximum Reported Size: 72 mm
References: Middendorff (1851) M; Alexeyev (2003) s?
Comments: Non Tritonium undatum var. schantarica Middendorff, 1848; as synonym of both Beringius turtoni and Neptunea brevicauda by Bouchet & Warén (1985).

Tritonium shantaricum sic, 
[Not available]
Comments: Error for schantaricum by Macpherson (1971).

Fusus spitzbergensis Reeve, 1855, 
[Synonym]
Range: 68°N to 44°N; 70°W to 0°W
Depth: 2 to 260 m (live 128 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 55 mm
Distribution: Canada: Newfoundland, Quebec
References: Verkrüzen (1878) M; Macpherson (1971) LlWE; Bouchet & Warén (1985) s
Combining Genera:  Aulacofusus Buccinofusus Colus

Neptunea terebralis Gould, 1860, 
[Synonym]
References: Bouchet & Warén (1985) s
Comments: Non Lamarck, 1803.


Partial List of References

Middendorff, A. T. von. 1849. Beiträge zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. II. Aufzählung und Beschreibung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehörigen einschaler Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, Sciences Naturelles (6)6 329-516, pls. 1-11.

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