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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Drilliinae

Drillia sinuosa (Montagu, 1803)


Range: 16°S to 16°S; 5.7°W
Maximum Reported Size: 18  mm

Synonymy

Murex sinuosus Montagu, 1803
Pleurotoma amanda E. A. Smith, 1882

Details


Murex sinuosus Montagu, 1803, p. 264-265, pl. 9, fig. 8
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: shore at Weymouth [mislocalized, from ballast?]
Range: 16°S to 16°S; 5.7°W
Maximum Reported Size: 18 mm
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: St. Helena
References: Maes (1983: 313)

Pleurotoma (Clavus) amanda E. A. Smith, 1882a, p. 207-208, [E. A. Smith (1890b), pl. 21, fig. 1]
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Unknown [St. Helena, E. A. Smith (1890b: 255)]
Range: 16°S to 16°S; 5.7°W
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: St. Helena
References: E. A. Smith (1890b) NSEW; Maes (MS) s


Partial List of References

Montagu, G. 1803. Testacea Britannica  [iii] + xxxix + 606 + [4]. J. S. Hollis: Romsey. [True date: post Sept 1.]
Smith, E. A. 1882. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)10 206-218.

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