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Gastropoda: : Cypraeoidea: Cypraeidae

Propustularia surinamensis (G. Perry, 1811)


Range: 26.5°N to 20.53°S; 86.5°W to 28.87°W
Depth: 7 to 780 m (live 21 to 165 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 48  mm

Synonymy

Cypraea surinamensis G. Perry, 1811
Proadusta surinamensis (G. Perry, 1811) 
Cypraea bicallosa Gray, 1831
Cypraea aubryana Jousseaume, 1869
Cypraea ingloria Crosse, 1878
Cypraea parasimina Olsson, 1922
Propustularia barbadensis Schilder, 1941

Details


Cypraea surinamensis G. Perry, 1811a, pl. 20, fig. 4
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Surinam
Range: 26.5°N to 20.53°S; 86.38°W to 28.87°W
Depth: 7 to 780 m (live 21 to 165 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 41 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida, Florida Keys; Mexico: Quintana Roo; Colombia: Serranilla Bank; Colombia; ABC Islands: Aruba, Curacao; Venezuela: Carabobo; Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, Brazil: Maranhao, Ceara, Atol das Rocas, Alagoas
References: Bayer (1971) W; Princz (1982b); Coomans (1988) dLlNM; Leal (1991b) SE; Petit (2003)
Combining Genera:  Proadusta

Cypraea aubryana Jousseaume, 1869, 
[Synonym]
Range: 20.3°N to 13.3°N; 86.5°W to 61.3°W
Depth: 120 m
Maximum Reported Size: 48 mm
Distribution: Mexico: Cozumel; Guadeloupe
References: Emerson & Old (1965) M; Petuch (1987) DdNSEW; Lorenz & Hubert (1993) s

Cypraea aubyrana sic, 
[Not available]
Comments: Error for aubryana by Emerson & Old (1965).

Propustularia barbadensis Schilder, 1941, 
[Synonym]
Comments: Non A. H. Verrill, 1948.

Cypraea bicallosa Gray, 1831, 
[Synonym]
References: Emerson & Old (1965) s

Cypraea callosa sic, 
[Not available]
Comments: Error for bicallosa by Weinkauff (1881:119).

Cypraea ingloria Crosse, 1878a, p. 166-168, pl. 3, fig. 2
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Mari Africam meridionalem [in error]
Maximum Reported Size: 30 mm
References: Crosse (1878a) M; Emerson & Old (1965) s

Cypraea parasimina Olsson, 1922, 
[Synonym]
References: Robinson (1991) s


Partial List of References

Crosse, H. 1878. Description d'espèces nouvelles de mollusques Journal de Conchyliologie 26 166-169, pl. 3. [Stated date: 01 Apr 1878.]
Perry, G. 1811. Conchology  iv + 5 pp., 61 pls. William Miller: London.

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