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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Cystiscidae

Persicula persicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Not found in the Western Atlantic


Synonymy

Voluta persicula Linnaeus, 1758
Marginella spilota Mazyck, 1911

Details


Voluta persicula Linnaeus, 1758, p. 730, [Pet. t. 8, f. 10, 2; Barrel icon. 1326, n. 33; Gualt. t. 28, f. C.D.E. & var. B; Klein t. 5, f. 92]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: in O[ceano] Africano

Marginella spilota Mazyck, 1911, 
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Ravenel MS
Type Locality: South Carolina
References: H. G. Lee (pers. comm. 4 June 1992) s
Comments: Mislocalized Persicula persicula from West Africa; nude name in Gibbes (1848) and Kurtz (1860).


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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