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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Marginellidae

Eratoidea margarita (Kiener, 1834)


Range: 13.2°N to 11.9°N; 69°W to 61.3°W
Depth: 10 to 10 m
Maximum Reported Size: 9  mm

Synonymy

Marginella margarita Kiener, 1834
Marginella candida Sowerby II, 1846

Details


Marginella margarita Kiener, 1834a, p. 15-16, pl. 9, fig. 42
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Mers des Indes
Range: 13.2°N to 11.9°N; 69°W to 61.3°W
Depth: 10 m
Maximum Reported Size: 9 mm
Distribution: ABC Islands: Curacao; Venezuela: Isla la Blanquilla; St. Vincent & the Grenadines: St. Vincent
References: Kiener (1834a) M; Reeve (1865a) NE; Jong & Coomans (1988) {S}W; Cossignani (2006e) DdS

Marginella candida Sowerby II, 1846, p. 382-383, pl. 75, fig. 86-87
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Not stated
Maximum Reported Size: 7 mm
References: Sowerby II (1846) M; Wagner & Abbott (1978) s


Partial List of References

Kiener, L. C. 1834. Genre Marginelle. (Marginella, Lamarck) Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes 3 1-30, 9 pls.
Sowerby, G. B., II. 1846. Monograph of the genus Marginella Thesaurus Conchyliorum 1 373-406, pls. 74-78 [True date: pre Nov 27.]

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