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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Volutidae

Voluta morrisoni (Petuch, 1980)


Range: 16.5°N ; 80.5°W
Depth: 60 to 60 m
Maximum Reported Size: 73  mm

Synonymy

Falsilyria morrisoni Petuch, 1980
Falsilyria harasewychi Petuch, 1987

Details


Falsilyria morrisoni Petuch, 1980a, p. 115-117, figs. 1-6
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Off north coast of Roatan Is., Honduras [More likely Rosalind Bank (García 1988b)]
Range: 16.5°N ; 80.5°W
Depth: 60 m
Maximum Reported Size: 73 mm
Distribution: Honduras
References: Petuch (1980a) DdM; García (1988b) NSEW; García (1993)

Falsilyria harasewychi Petuch, 1987, p. 70-71, pl. 15, figs. 1-2
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Off north coast of Roatan Is., Honduras [More likely Rosalind Bank (García 1988b)]
Range: 16.5°N ; 80.5°W
Depth: 60 m
Maximum Reported Size: 59 mm
Distribution: Honduras
References: Poppe & Goto (1992) sM


Partial List of References

Petuch, E. J. 1980. A new Falsilyria (Volutidae) and a new Conus (Conidae) from Roatan Island, Honduras (Atlantic) Nautilus 94 115-118. [Stated date: 30 Jul 1980.]
Petuch, E. J. 1987. New Caribbean molluscan faunas  [v] + 154 + A1-A4, 29 pls. Coastal Education & Research Foundation: Charlottesville, Virginia. [True date: 08 Jul 1987.]

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