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Gastropoda: : Trochoidea: Moelleriinae

Moelleria costulata (Möller, 1842)


Range: 79.42°N to 31°N; 92°W to 0°W
Depth: 7 to 538 m (live 10 to 53 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 2.6  mm

Synonymy

Margarita costulata Möller, 1842
Adeorbis costulata (Möller, 1842) 
Cyclostrema costulata (Möller, 1842) 
Margarita minutissima Mighels, 1843
Moelleria glabra Verkrüzen, 1877

Details


Margarita ? costulata Möller, 1842a, p. 81
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: [West] Greenland [Baals River or Julianehaab, see Schiötte & Warén (1992)]
Range: 79.42°N to 31°N; 92°W to 0°W
Depth: 7 to 538 m (live 10 to 53 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 2.6 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada: Nunavut, Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Labrador, Newfoundland, Quebec, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina; Eastern Atlantic: Iceland
References: Möller (1842a) {M}; Stimpson (1851c); Posselt & Jensen (1899) N; Thorson (1944) lM; Macpherson (1971) L{lN}W; Fretter & Graham (1977) E
Combining Genera:  Adeorbis Cyclostrema

Mölleria costulata var. glabra Verkrüzen, 1877, p. 55
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: Not stated

Margarita minutissima Mighels, 1843b, p. 349, pl. 16, fig. 5
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Casco Bay [Maine]
Range: 43.9°N ; 70°W
Maximum Reported Size: 0.5 mm
Distribution: USA: Maine
References: Mighels (1843b) NSEWM; Baxter & McLean (1984) s


Partial List of References

Mighels, J. W. 1843. Descriptions of six species of shells regarded as new Boston Journal of Natural History 4 345-350, pl. 16. [Stated date: -- --- 1843; true date: -- Apr 1843.]
Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4 76-97.
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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