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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Epitonioidea: Epitoniidae

Epitonium frielei (Dall, 1889)


Range: 39.38°N to 29.5°S; 80°W to 48.95°W
Depth: 91 to 2941 m (live 2941 to 2941 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 16  mm

Synonymy

Cingula apicina A. E. Verrill, 1884
Alvania apicinum (A. E. Verrill, 1884) 
Scala frielei Dall, 1889

Details


Scala frielei Dall, 1889a, p. 313
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: USFC 2595, off Cape Hatteras
Range: 35.13°N to 29.5°S; 80°W to 48.95°W
Depth: 91 to 250 m
Maximum Reported Size: 16 mm
Distribution: USA: North Carolina, Florida: East Florida, Florida Keys; Cuba: Cienfuegos; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands: St. Croix; Brazil: Amapa, Rio Grande do Sul
References: Dall (1889a) N; Rios et al. (1975) dSE; Espinosa & Garces (1990b)

Cingula apicina A. E. Verrill, 1884, p. 183, pl. 32, fig. 8
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: USFC sta. 2041
Range: 39.38°N ; 68.42°W
Depth: 2941 m (live 2941 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 7.6 mm
References: Verrill (1884) DdLlNSEWM; Warén (1974) s?
Comments: Has priority if the synonymy is correct, but precedence might be reversed if conditions of ICZN Article 23.9 apply.
Combining Genera:  Alvania


Partial List of References

Dall, W. H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredgings, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake,' Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 18 1-492, pls. 10-40. [Stated date: 08 Jun 1889.]
Verrill, A. E. 1884. Second catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 139-294, pls. 28-32.

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