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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Crassispirinae

Glossispira ebenina (Dall, 1890)
Fossil only


Maximum Reported Size: 16.5  mm

Details


Drillia (Drillia) ebenina Dall, 1890c, p. 33, pl. 2, fig. 8
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Miocene of Santo Domingo; Pliocene of Caloosahatchie beds; Recent, Gulf of Mexico, from Florida Keys to Vera Cruz
Maximum Reported Size: 16.5 mm
References: Dall (1890c) M
Comments: Nude name in Dall (1889b: 96). Tippett (2006) considered this species to be fossil only, referring Recent records to Strictispira solida.


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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