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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Marginellidae

Prunum roscidum (Redfield, 1860)


Range: 39°N to 27.3°N; 80.2°W to 75°W
Depth: 0 to 120 m (live 0 to 11 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 16  mm

Synonymy

Marginella guttata auct. non Dillwyn, 1817
Marginella limatula auct. non Conrad, 1834
Marginella roscida Redfield, 1860
Marginella eulima Dall, 1892

Details


Marginella roscida Redfield, 1860,
[Basis of the current name]
Range: 39°N to 27.3°N; 80.2°W to 75°W
Depth: 0 to 120 m (live 0 to 11 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 16 mm
Distribution: USA: New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida: East Florida
References: Abbott (1957) DlNM; Lyons (1989b) SWL
Comments: Records from Massachusetts (Abbott 1974) need confirmation; records from Brazil are Prunum fulminatum fide Souza (1997).

Marginella eulima Dall, 1892b, p. 225, pl. 13, fig. 10
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: Pliocene of Shell Creek and Caloosahatchie beds, Florida
Maximum Reported Size: 13 mm
References: Dall (1892b) M; Abbott (1957) s
Comments: Described as a fossil.

Marginella guttata auct. non Dillwyn, 1817, 
[Not available]
Range: 37.3°N ; 76°W
Depth: 9 m
Distribution: USA: Virginia
References: Rosenberg (herein, 23 Dec 2004) s
Comments: Misidentification by Wass (1972: 127).

Marginella limatula auct. non Conrad, 1834, 
[Not available]
References: Abbott (1957) s
Comments: Misidentification by Dall (1890).

Marginella roscidia sic, 
[Not available]
Comments: Error for roscida by Spencer & Campbell (1987).


Partial List of References

Dall, W. H. 1892. 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 II. Streptodont and other gastropods, concluded Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia 3 [i-vii], 201-473, 1 fold-out map, pls. 13-22. [Stated date: -- Dec 1892.]

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