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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Neritoidea: Phenacolepadidae

Plesiothyreus hamillei (P. Fischer, 1857)


Range: 32.3°N to 28°S; 94°W to 34.9°W
Depth: 0 to 3 m (live 0 to 0.6 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 8  mm

Synonymy

Acmaea hamillei P. Fischer, 1857
Phenacolepas hamillei (P. Fischer, 1857) 
Scutellina antillarum Dall, 1889

Details


Acmaea hamillei P. Fischer, 1857a, p. 276-277
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Guadeloupe
Range: 32.3°N to 28°S; 94°W to 34.9°W
Depth: 0 to 3 m (live 0 to 0.6 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 8 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: Florida Keys; USA: Louisiana, Texas; Mexico: Cayo Arcas, Campeche, Quintana Roo; Panama, Colombia, Venezuela: Isla la Blanquilla; Bermuda, Bahamas: Grand Bahama Island, Abaco (Great or Little); Cuba: North Havana Province, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba; Cayman Islands: Grand Cayman Island, Cayman Brac; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands: St. Thomas, St. Croix; Guadeloupe; Trinidad & Tobago: Tobago; Brazil: Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina
References: Aguayo (1935); Rehder (1943b) dl; Abbott (1974) W; Cosel (1986) D; Mello & Perrier (1986) E; Vokes & Vokes (1983, original station data) {W}; Princz (1987); Christiaens (1989) c; Fernández Milera (1998); García & Lee (2004); ANSP L
Comments: 25°N in Florida.
Combining Genera:  Phenacolepas

Scutellina antillarum Dall, 1889a, p. 342-343, pl. 31, figs. 10-11
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Shuttleworth MS
Type Locality: Reefs near Key West, Florida
Range: 25°N ; 82°W
Maximum Reported Size: 8 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: Florida Keys
References: Abbott (1958) s
Comments: Nude name in Poulsen (1878: 14).


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.]
Fischer, P. 1857. Description d'espèces nouvelles Journal de Conchyliologie 5 273-277, pls. 8, 11. [Stated date: -- Jan 1857.]

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