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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Littorinoidea: Littorinidae

Echinolittorina jamaicensis (C. B. Adams, 1850)


Range: 32.3°N to 12°N; 97°W to 0°W
Depth: 0 to 0 m (live 0 to 0 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 19.1  mm

Synonymy

Littorina jamaicensis C. B. Adams, 1850
Littorina riisei Mörch, 1876
Nodilittorina riisei (Mörch, 1876) 
Nodilittorina glaucocinta Bandel & Kadolsky, 1982
Nodilittorina mordax Bandel & Kadolsky, 1982

Details


Littorina jamaicensis C. B. Adams, 1850d, p. 71-72, Not figured
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Jamaica
Range: 32.3°N to 18°N; 97°W to 77°W
Depth: 0 m (live 0 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 19.1 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida, Florida Keys; USA: Texas; Mexico: Quintana Roo; Belize, Honduras: Swan Island; ABC Islands: Bonaire; Venezuela: Falcon; Bermuda, Bahamas: Grand Bahama Island; Cuba: North Havana Province, Cienfuegos; Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Antigua, Barbados
References: Reid (2009) vNSEW

Nodilittorina (Nodilittorina) glaucocincta Bandel & Kadolsky, 1982, p. 27-28, figs. 5, 9, 32-33
[Synonym]
Type Locality: St. Jean, Virgin Islands
Range: 18°N
Depth: 0 m (live 0 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 13 mm
Distribution: Jamaica; Virgin Islands: St. John
References: Reid (2009) s
Comments: Based on Littorina glaucocincta, a name introduced in synonymy of Littorina floccosa by Mörch (1876a: 138) but not validated before 1961 (ICZN Article 11.5).

Nodilittorina (Nodilittorina) mordax Bandel & Kadolsky, 1982, p. 28-29, figs. 5, 9, 37-39
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas
Range: 26°N to 12°N; 79°W to 69°W
Depth: 0 m (live 0 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 16 mm
Distribution: ABC Islands: Curacao; Bahamas: Abaco (Great or Little), Bimini, New Providence
References: Redfern (2001) M; Reid (2009) s

Littorina (Melaraphe) riisei Mörch, 1876a, p. 140
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Havana, Cuba
Range: 26°N to 14.03°N; 83.38°W to 80°W
Depth: 0 m (live 0 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 17 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida; Nicaragua, Cuba: North Havana Province
References: Mörch (1876a) {SW}; Bandel & Kadolsky (1982) NE; Petuch (1998a) SW; Williams et al. (2003); Reid (2009) s
Combining Genera:  Nodilittorina


Partial List of References

Adams, C. B. 1850. Descriptions of supposed new species of marine shells, which inhabit Jamaica Contributions to Conchology 5 69-75. [Stated date: -- Feb 1850.]
Bandel, K. and D. Kadolsky. 1982. Western Atlantic species of Nodilittorina (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia): Comparative morphology and its functional, ecological, phylogenetic and taxonomic implications Veliger 25 1-42, 1 fold-out table, 8 pls. [Stated date: 01 Jul 1982.]
Mörch, O. A. L. 1876. Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium imprimis insularum danicarum Malakozoologische Blätter 23 45-58, 87-143.

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