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Malacolog Version 4.1.1

A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Naticoidea: Naticidae

Polinices mammilla (Linnaeus, 1758)
Not found in the Western Atlantic


Synonymy

Nerita mammilla Linnaeus, 1758

Details


Nerita mammilla Linnaeus, 1758, p. 776-777, [Figures of several earlier authors cited]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Barbados [In error]

Mamma mamilla sic, 
[Not available]
Comments: Misspelling of mammilla. Erroneously reported from Barbuda by Higgins & Marrat (1878).


Partial List of References

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae Systema Naturae, 10th ed., vol. 1 824 pp. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae [Stockholm, Sweden].

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