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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Cystiscidae

Persicula frumentum (Sowerby I, 1832)


Range: 14.5°N to 11°N; 71°W to 61°W
Depth: 0 to 65 m
Maximum Reported Size: 8  mm

Synonymy

Marginella frumentum Sowerby I, 1832
Gibberula frumentum (Sowerby I, 1832) 

Details


Marginella frumentum Sowerby I in Broderip & Sowerby, 1832b, p. 57
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Ad oras Americae Meridionalis (St. Elena and Salango) [in error, localities Eastern Pacific, see Boyer (2004)]
Range: 14.5°N to 11°N; 71°W to 61°W
Depth: 0 to 65 m
Maximum Reported Size: 8 mm
Distribution: ABC Islands: Aruba; Venezuela: Gulf of Venezuela; Martinique; St. Vincent & the Grenadines: St. Vincent, Grenada
References: Dautzenberg (1900) DSW; Kaicher (1981a: 2643) d; F. Boyer (2004) NETM; Cossignani (2006e)
Combining Genera:  Gibberula


Partial List of References

Broderip, W. J. and G. B. Sowerby. 1832. [New species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming] Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 2 50-61. [True date: 05 Jun 1832.]

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