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Gastropoda: : Pyramidelloidea: Odostomiinae

Menestho albula (Fabricius, 1780)


Range: 70°N to 39.88°N; 70.98°W to 0°W
Depth: 13 to 668 m (live 13 to 72 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 9  mm

Synonymy

Monoptygma albula (Fabricius, 1780) 
Turbo albulus Fabricius, 1780
Odostomia fabricii Jeffreys, 1877
Odostomia sulcata A. E. Verrill, 1880
Odostomia morseana Bartsch, 1909

Details


Turbo albulus Fabricius, 1780, p. 394
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Siuterursak, Greenland
Range: 70°N to 64.18°N; 64°W to 0°W
Depth: 13 to 183 m (live 13 to 72 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 9 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada: Labrador, Nova Scotia
References: Möller (1842a) c; Posselt & Jensen (1899) DS; Thorson (1944) dLlNWM; Warén (1991) E{DSM}
Combining Genera:  Monoptygma

Odostomia fabricii Jeffreys, 1877, p. 242
[Not available]
Type Locality: Siuterursak, Greenland
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland
References: Warén (1991) s
Comments: Name introduced in synonymy of O. albula.

Odostomia (Menestho) morseana Bartsch, 1909, p. 104
[Synonym]
Type Locality: USFC sta. 871 or 894
Maximum Reported Size: 2.8 mm
References: Odé & Speers (1972f); Warén (1991) s
Comments: Replacement name for O. sulcata A. E. Verrill, 1880, non A. Adams, 1860.

Odostomia (Menestho) sulcata A. E. Verrill, 1880c, p. 380-381
[Synonym]
Type Locality: USFC sta. 871 or 894
Range: 40.05°N to 39.88°N; 70.98°W to 70.39°W
Depth: 210 to 668 m
Maximum Reported Size: 2.8 mm
Distribution: USA: Off New Jersey
References: Verrill (1880) DdNSEWM; Odé & Speers (1972f); Warén (1991) s
Comments: Non A. Adams, 1860.


Partial List of References

Bartsch, P. 1909. Pyramidellidae of New England and the adjacent region Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 34 67-113, pls. 11-14. [Stated date: -- Feb 1909; true date: pre 8 Feb.]
Fabricius, O. 1780. Fauna Greenlandica  xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl. Joannis Gottlob Rothe: Hafniae et Lipsiae.
Jeffreys, J. G. 1877. New and peculiar Mollusca of the Patellidae and other families of Gastropoda procured in the 'Valorous' Expedition Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)19 231-243.
Verrill, A. E. 1880. Notice of recent additions to the marine Invertebrata, of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others Proceedings of the United States National Museum 3 356-405.

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