Range: 35°N to 20.43°S; 92.21°W to 25°W Depth: 2 to 214 m (live 3 to 81 m) Maximum Reported Size: 34 mm
Synonymy
Cymatium vespaceum auct. non Lamarck, 1822 Cymatium gemmatum auct. non Reeve, 1844 Tritonium gracile auct. non Reeve, 1844 Triton comptus A. Adams, 1855 Triton occidentalis Mörch, 1877 Triton ridleyi E. A. Smith, 1890 Cymatium gurabonicum Maury, 1917 Cymatium borneanum Cox, 1948
Details
Triton comptusA. Adams, 1855d, p. 312, [Beu 1998, fig. 26g] [Basis of the current name] Type Locality: China Range: 35°N to 20.43°S; 92.21°W to 25°W Depth: 3 to 85 m (live 3 to 81 m) Maximum Reported Size: 31.2 mm Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida, West Florida; Mexico: Campeche Bank; Bermuda, Brazil: Amapa, Fernando de Noronha, Bahia References: Yen (1942) T; Beu (1985) E; Leal (1991b) DLS; García (2001) M; E. F. García (2006, pers. comm.) W; García (2007b)
Cymatium borneanum Cox, 1948, [Synonym] References: Beu (1998) sT
Cymatium gemmatum auct. non Reeve, 1844, [Not available] Range: 26.7°N to 9.4°N; 89.7°W to 59.6°W Depth: 18 to 214 m Maximum Reported Size: 34 mm Distribution: Mexico: Alacran Reef; Panama; Virgin Islands: St. Croix References: Clench & Turner (1957) DdNEM; Olsson & McGinty (1958) S; Usticke (1959) {E}; Rice & Kornicker (1962) W; Beu (1985) s; Beu (1998) s Comments: Misidentification by Clench & Turner (1957) and others; C. gemmatum is Indo-Pacific fide Emerson (1991), Beu (1998).
Tritonium gracile auct. non Reeve, 1844, [Not available] References: Beu (1998) s Comments: Misidentification by Dall (1889:227, pl. 29, fig. 2).
Cymatium gurabonicum Maury, 1917, [Synonym] References: Beu (1998) sT
Triton gracile occidentaleMörch, 1877b, p. 30, [Reeve 1844b, fig. 58] [Synonym] Type Locality: St. Thomas Range: 18.3°N ; 65°W Maximum Reported Size: 33 mm Distribution: Virgin Islands: St. Thomas References: Mörch (1877b) NSEWM Comments: Considered infrasubspecific in some prior versions of Malacolog, but must be considered subspecific under ICZN Article 45.6 as it is not unambiguously infrasubspecific.
Triton ridleyiE. A. Smith, 1890a, p. 489-490, pl. 30, fig. 1 [Synonym] Type Locality: Fernando Noronha Maximum Reported Size: 18.3 mm References: Beu (1998) sMT Comments: Leal (1991b) questions the type locality.
Cymatium vespaceum auct. non Lamarck, 1822, [Not available] Range: 35°N to 8°S; 79.8°W to 34.9°W Depth: 2 to 9 m (live 3 to 9 m) Distribution: USA: North Carolina; Panama, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Brazil: Pernambuco References: Warmke & Abbott (1961); Mello & Perrier (1986) dSE Comments: Misidentification; true C. vespaceum is rare in the Western Atlantic (Beu 1998: 88).
Partial List of References
Adams, A. 1855. Descriptions of twenty-seven new species of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 22 311-317. Mörch, O. A. L. 1877. Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium imprimis insularum danicarum Malakozoologische Blätter 24 14-66, 93-123. Smith, E. A. 1890. Notes on the zoology of Fernando Noronha. Mollusca Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 20 483-503, pl. 30. [Stated date: 31 Jul 1890.]
