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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Bivalvia: Euheterodonta: Pholadoidea: Teredinidae

Psiloteredo megotara (Hanley, 1848)


Range: 45°N to 32.5°N; 70.9°W to 0°W
Depth: 0 to 0 m

Synonymy

Teredo nana Turton, 1822
Teredo megotara Hanley, 1848
Teredo dilatata Stimpson, 1851
Teredo denticulata P. Fischer, 1856
Teredo mionota Jeffreys, 1865
Teredo striator Jeffreys, 1865

Details


Teredo megotara Hanley, 1848,
[Basis of the current name]
Range: 45°N to 42°N
Depth: 0 m

Teredo denticulata P. Fischer, 1856, 
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Gray

Teredo dilatata Stimpson, 1851e, p. 113-114, Not figured
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Lynn, Massachusetts
Range: 42.5°N to 32.5°N; 70.9°W
Distribution: USA: Massachusetts
Comments: Nude name in Stimpson (1851c: 26).

Teredo mionota Jeffreys, 1865, 
[Synonym]

Teredo nana Turton, 1822, 
[Synonymy uncertain]
Comments: Nomen dubium according to Turner (1966).

Teredo striator Jeffreys, 1865, 
[Synonym]


Partial List of References

Stimpson, W. 1851. Descriptions of several new species of shells from the northern coast of New England Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 4 113-114. [Stated date: -- Dec 1851.]

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