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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Columbellidae

Parvanachis cancellata (Gaskoin, 1852)
Dubious name


Maximum Reported Size: 8.9  mm

Details


Columbella cancellata Gaskoin, 1852, p. 6, [Reeve 1858c, pl. 21, fig. 126]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: West Indies
Maximum Reported Size: 8.9 mm
References: Gaskoin (1852) M
Comments: Often synonymized with Parvanachis obesa (e.g. by Maury 1922, and Wagner & Abbott 1978), but described as 'Length, 35/100 of an inch' (8.9 mm), making it too large to be a likely synonym of that species which is usually under 6 mm.


Partial List of References

Gaskoin, J. S. 1852. Descriptions of twenty species of Columbellae, and species of Cypraea Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 19 2-14. [Stated date: -- --- 1851.]

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