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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Pleurobranchoidea: Pleurobranchidae

Berthella americana (A. E. Verrill, 1885)


Range: 39.91°N ; 69.5°W
Depth: 457 to 457 m (live 457 to 457 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 15  mm

Details


Pleurobranchus americanus A. E. Verrill, 1885b, p. 429-430, pl. 44, fig. 13
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: USFC sta. 2262, off Martha's Vineyard, 39°54'45"N, 69°29'45"W
Range: 39.91°N ; 69.5°W
Depth: 457 m (live 457 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 15 mm
References: Verrill (1885b) DdLlNSEW; Ev. Marcus (1984) c
Comments: Internal shell 13.5 mm (A. E. Verrill 1885b).


Partial List of References

Verrill, A. E. 1885. Third catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 395-452, pls. 42-44.

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