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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Muricoidea: Trophoninae

Scabrotrophon fabricii (Möller, 1842)


Range: 78°N to 45°N; 94°W to 0°W
Depth: 8 to 574 m (live 8 to 128 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 48.9  mm

Synonymy

Tritonium craticulatum auct. non Linnaeus, 1758
Trophon fabricii Möller, 1842
Boreotrophon fabricii (Möller, 1842) 
Nipponotrophon fabricii (Möller, 1842) 
Murex borealis Reeve, 1845
Trophon heuglini Mörch, 1876
Trophon interstriatus Sowerby II, 1880

Details


Trophon fabricii Möller, 1842a, p. 87
[Basis of the current name]
Attributed to: Beck
Type Locality: [West] Greenland
Range: 76°N to 45°N; 94°W to 0°W
Depth: 8 to 574 m (live 8 to 128 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 48.9 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Davis Strait, Canada: Nunavut, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Labrador, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec; Eastern Atlantic: Iceland
References: Posselt & Jensen (1899) {D}; Thorson (1944) dlM; Macpherson (1971) LNW{lM}; Clarke (1974) D; Bouchet & Warén (1985) T; Houart & Lan (2001) c
Combining Genera:  Boreotrophon Nipponotrophon

Murex borealis Reeve, 1845c,  pl. 30, fig. 145
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Iceland
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Iceland
References: Macpherson (1971) s

Tritonium craticulatum auct. non Linnaeus, 1758, 
[Not available]
Range: 78°N to 45°N
Depth: 55 to 146 m
Maximum Reported Size: 34 mm
References: Macpherson (1971) s; F. C. Baker (1919) NS
Comments: Misidentification by Fabricius (1780).

Trophon heuglini Mörch, 1876b, p. 368-369
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Oceano poleari
Maximum Reported Size: 22 mm
References: Mörch (1876b) M; Bouchet & Warén (1985) s

Trophon interstriatus Sowerby II, 1880a, p. 61, pl. 404, fig. 6
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Unknown
References: Bouchet & Warén (1985) s


Partial List of References

Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4 76-97.
Mörch, O. A. L. 1876. Description d'espèces nouvelles Journal de Conchyliologie 24 368-374.
Reeve, L. 1845. Monograph of the genus Murex Conchologia Iconica 3 pls. 1-34
Sowerby, G. B., II. 1880. Monograph of the subgenus Trophon Thesaurus Conchyliorum 4 59-67, pls. 404-405, 405*

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