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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Lottioidea: Lottiidae

Lottia alveus (Conrad, 1831)


Range: 53.5°N to 40.9°N; 73.4°W to 57°W
Depth: 0 to 0 m
Maximum Reported Size: 13  mm

Synonymy

Patelloidea alveus (Conrad, 1831) 
Tectura alveus (Conrad, 1831) 
Collisella alveus (Conrad, 1831) 
Patelloida alveus (Conrad, 1831) 
Patella alveus Conrad, 1831
Acmaea parallela Dall, 1921

Details


Patella alveus Conrad, 1831a, p. 267-268, pl. 11, fig. 20
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Massachusetts
Range: 53.5°N to 40.9°N; 73.4°W to 57°W
Depth: 0 m
Maximum Reported Size: 13 mm
Distribution: Canada: Labrador; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York
References: Smith & Prime (1870) SW; Carlton et al. (1991) NEM
Comments: Extinct in Western Atlantic fide Carlton et al. (1991).
Combining Genera:  Collisella Patelloida Patelloidea Tectura

Acmaea scutum parallela Dall, 1921a, p. 169, [Dall 1871, pl. 14, fig. 13]
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Sitka, Alaska to Victoria, British Columbia
References: Christaens (1975b) s
Comments: Nude name in Dall (1914: 14).


Partial List of References

Conrad, T. A. 1831. Description of fifteen new species of Recent, and three of fossil shells, chiefly from the coast of the United States Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6 256-268, pl. 11. [Stated date: -- Mar 1831; true date: -- Apr 1831.]
Dall, W. H. 1921. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America, from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigure species Bulletin of the United States National Museum 112 i-iii, 1-217, pls. 1-22. [True date: 24 Feb 1921.]

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