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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Marginellidae

Volvarina fusca (Sowerby II, 1846)


Range: 24.72°N to 18°N; 83.42°W to 66°W
Depth: 68 to 68 m
Maximum Reported Size: 13  mm

Details


Marginella fusca Sowerby II, 1846, p. 392, pl. 76, figs. 122-123
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: West Indies
Range: 24.72°N to 18°N; 83.42°W to 66°W
Depth: 68 m
Maximum Reported Size: 13 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: West of Dry Tortugas; Puerto Rico
References: Dall (1889a) NW; Dall & Simpson (1901) SE
Comments: Also described by Sowerby I (1846, p. 95-96).


Partial List of References

Sowerby, G. B., II. 1846. Monograph of the genus Marginella Thesaurus Conchyliorum 1 373-406, pls. 74-78 [True date: pre Nov 27.]

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