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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea: Philinoidea: Cylichnidae

Acteocina coixlacryma (Guppy, 1867)
Fossil only


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Tornatina coix-lacryma Guppy, 1867, p. 500, fig. 3
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Upper Miocene of Cumana [Trinidad] and Jamaica
Comments: Described as a fossil. Treated as a synonym of A. recta by Dall (1889a) and A. wetherilli by Dall (1890), but removed from synonymy by Mikkelsen & Mikkelsen (1984, 1987).


Partial List of References

Guppy, R. J. L. 1867. Notes on West Indian geology, with remarks on the existence of an Atlantis in the early Tertiary Period; and descriptions of some new fossils, from the Caribean [sic] Miocene Geological Magazine 4 496-501. [Stated date: -- Nov 1867.]

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