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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Cochlespirinae

Pyrgospira acurugata (Dall, 1890)
Fossil only


Maximum Reported Size: 21.2  mm

Details


Drillia (Drillia) acurugata Dall, 1890c, p. 32, pl. 2, fig. 12
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Caloosahatchie beds, Florida
Maximum Reported Size: 21.2 mm
References: Dall (1890c) M
Comments: Tippett (2006) considered Pyrgospira acurugata (Dall, 1890c) to be fossil only; Recent records are Strictispira redferni.


Partial List of References

Dall, W. H. 1890. Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. Part I. Pulmonate, opisthobranchiate and orthodont gastropods Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia 3 1-200, pls. 1-12. [Stated date: -- Aug 1890.]

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