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Gastropoda: : Ellobioidea: Ellobiidae

Pedipes mirabilis (Mühlfeld, 1816)


Range: 32°N to 24°S; 97°W to 14.4°W
Depth: 0 to 1.5 m (live 0 to 0 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 6  mm

Synonymy

Pedipes afer auct. non Gmelin, 1791
Turbo mirabilis Mühlfeld, 1816
Turbo canaliculatus Say, 1822
Pedipes quadridens Pfeiffer, 1839
Pedipes globulosus C. B. Adams, 1845
Pedipes globulus Pfeiffer, 1856

Details


Turbo mirabilis Mühlfeld, 1816, p. 8-9, pl. 2, figs. 13a-b
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Unknown
Range: 32°N to 24°S; 97°W to 14.4°W
Depth: 0 to 1.5 m (live 0 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 6 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida, West Florida; USA: Texas; Mexico: Campeche State, Yucatan State, Quintana Roo; Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia; ABC Islands: Aruba, Curacao; Venezuela: Falcon, Carabobo; Bermuda, Bahamas: Grand Bahama Island, Abaco (Great or Little), Andros, New Providence; Cuba: Havana Province, Matanzas, Guantanamo; Cayman Islands: Cayman Brac; Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands: St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix; St. Kitts/St. Christopher, Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Martinique; St. Vincent & the Grenadines: The Grenadines; Trinidad & Tobago: Trinidad, Tobago; Brazil: Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sao Paulo; Ascension Island
References: Clench (1938b); Waller (1973) D; Rosewater (1975) E; J. Andrews (1977) NW; Martins (1996) TM

Pedipes afer auct. non Gmelin, 1791, 
[Not available]
Comments: Misidentification by Lange de Morretes (1949); status of E. A. Smith's (1890b) record from St. Helena needs to be determined.

Turbo canaliculatus Say, 1822a, p. 240
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: Southern coast, United States
Maximum Reported Size: 2.5 mm
References: Say (1822a) M; H. G. Lee (pers. comm.) s?

Pedipes globulus C. B. Adams, 1845, p. 12, Not figured
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Jamaica
Range: 18°N ; 77°W
Maximum Reported Size: 4.8 mm
Distribution: Jamaica
References: C. B. Adams (1845) NSEWM

Pedipes globulus Pfeiffer, 1856, 
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Ferussac; Petit
Distribution: Haiti
Comments: Nude name in H. & A. Adams (1855).

Pedipes quadridens Pfeiffer, 1839b, p. 537, [Faber 2004e, figs. 123-126]
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: Cuba, Nordküste [Matanzas Bay or Cardenas, based on localities cited by Pfeiffer (1854c)]
Range: 26°N to 18.5°N; 82°W to 67°W
Maximum Reported Size: 5 mm
Distribution: Bahamas: Abaco (Great or Little); Cuba, Puerto Rico
References: Shuttleworth (1854) SE; Maury (1922) s; Clench (1938b); Martins (1996) s; Faber (2004e) T
Comments: Possibly a senior synonym of P. ovalis C. B. Adams, 1849.


Partial List of References

Adams, C. B. 1845. Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in Jamaica repertorum, synopsis Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2 1-17. [Stated date: -- Jan 1845.]
Mühlfeld, J. C. M. von. 1816. Beschreibung einiger neuen Conchylien Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin für die Neuesten Entdeckungen in der Gesammten Naturkunde 8 3-11, pls. 1-2. [Stated date: -- --- 1818; true date: -- --- 1816.]
Pfeiffer, L. 1839. Bericht über die Ergebnisse meiner Reise nach Cuba im Winter 1838-1839 Archiv für Naturgeschichte 5(1) 346-358.
Say, T. 1822. An account of some of the marine shells of the United States Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2 221-248, 257-276, 302-325. [Stated date: -- Jun 1822; true date: -- Jul 1822.]

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