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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea: Columbellidae

Anachis lyrata (Sowerby I, 1832)


Range: 14°N to 28°S; 83.3°W to 34.9°W
Depth: 0 to 6 m (live 0 to 1.5 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 18  mm

Synonymy

Columbella lyrata Sowerby I, 1832
Colombella veleda Duclos, 1846

Details


Columbella lyrata Sowerby I, 1832a, p. 114
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: In Sinu Panamae et ad Chiriqui
Range: 11.5°N to 28°S; 83.08°W to 34.9°W
Depth: 0 to 6 m (live 0 to 1.5 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 18 mm
Distribution: Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil: Ceara, Pernambuco, Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina
References: Dautzenberg (1900) DN; Radwin (1977b) T; Cosel (1986) dLl; Mello & Perrier (1986) E; Robinson & Montoya (1987) W; Carvalho Lopes & Schaeffer-Novelli (1992)

Colombella veleda Duclos, 1846, 
[Synonym]
Range: 14°N ; 83.3°W
Depth: 0 m
Distribution: Nicaragua
References: Radwin (1977b) sT; Petuch (1998a) DdNSEW


Partial List of References

Sowerby, G. B., I. 1832. [New species of Shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Genus Columbella] Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 2 113-120. [True date: 14 Aug 1832.]

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