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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Rissooidea: Rissoinae

Boreocingula castanea (Möller, 1842)


Range: 76.62°N to 60°N; 96.4°W to 0°W
Depth: 2 to 150 m (live 5 to 21 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 4.8  mm

Synonymy

Rissoa castanea Möller, 1842
Alvania castanea (Möller, 1842) 
Cingula castanea (Möller, 1842) 

Details


Rissoa castanea Möller, 1842a, p. 82
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: [?Godthaab, West] Greenland [see Schiötte & Warén (1992)]
Range: 76.62°N to 60°N; 96.4°W to 0°W
Depth: 2 to 150 m (live 5 to 21 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 4.8 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada: Nunavut, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Hudson Bay; Eastern Atlantic: Iceland
References: Thorson (1944) L; Macpherson (1971) {L}l; Warén (1974) NWT
Combining Genera:  Alvania Cingula


Partial List of References

Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4 76-97.

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