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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Daphnellinae

Gymnobela agassizii (Verrill & Smith, 1880)


Range: 41.59°N to 1.78°N; 82°W to 0°W
Depth: 71 to 3383 m (live 71 to 3383 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 47  mm

Synonymy

Pleurotomella agassizii (Verrill & Smith, 1880) 
Pleurotoma agassizii Verrill & Smith, 1880
Pleurotoma brychia Watson, 1881
Pleurotomella brychia (Watson, 1881) 
Pleurotomella vitrea A. E. Verrill, 1885
Mangilia mexicana Dall, 1889
Mangilia permagna Dall, 1890

Details


Pleurotoma agassizii Verrill & Smith in A. E. Verrill, 1880b, p. 394-395, [Verrill 1882, pl. 57, figs. 3-3a]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Fish Hawk stations 865-880, 891, 892, 894, 895
Range: 41.59°N to 11°N; 76.01°W to 0°W
Depth: 71 to 3300 m (live 71 to 2815 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 30.5 mm
Distribution: USA: Massachusetts, Delaware, North Carolina; Trinidad & Tobago: Tobago
References: Verrill (1882a) M; Bush (1893) dLlNSW; Bouchet & Warén (1980) E
Combining Genera:  Pleurotomella

Pleurotoma (Thesbia) brychia Watson, 1881c, p. 451-453, [Watson 1886, pl. 19, figs. 4a-c]
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Challenger sta. 106, Mid-Atlantic
Range: 1.78°N ; 24.43°W
Depth: 3383 m (live 3383 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 24 mm
Distribution: Oceanic
References: Watson (1881c) DdLlNSEWM; Bouchet & Warén (1980) s
Combining Genera:  Pleurotomella

Mangilia (Pleurotomella) agassizii var. mexicana Dall, 1889a, p. 121
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: Gulf of Mexico
Range: 24°N to 14.5°N; 82°W to 61°W
Depth: 918 to 1170 m
Maximum Reported Size: 25 mm
Distribution: Gulf of Mexico, Martinique
References: Dall (1889a) M; Dall (1889b) DdNSEW
Comments: Supposedly illustrated on pl. 11, fig. 4 of Dall (1889b), but the same figure is cited for Pleurotomella ipara Dall, 1889, to which it applies according to Boss, Rosewater & Ruhoff (1968).

Mangilia (Pleurotomella) agassizii var. permagna Dall, 1890a, p. 308
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Albatross sta. 2734 or 2754
Range: 37°N to 11°N; 73°W to 61°W
Depth: 1538 to 1609 m (live 1538 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 47 mm
References: Bouchet & Warén (1980) s

Pleurotomella vitrea A. E. Verrill, 1885b, p. 414
[Synonym]
Type Locality: USFC sta. 2212
Range: 39.99°N to 39.98°N; 70.51°W to 70.5°W
Depth: 702 to 783 m (live 702 to 783 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 9 mm
Distribution: USA: Massachusetts
References: A. E. Verrill (1885b) DdLlNSEWM; Bouchet & Warén (1980) s


Partial List of References

Dall, W. H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredgings, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake,' Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 18 1-492, pls. 10-40. [Stated date: 08 Jun 1889.]
Dall, W. H. 1890. Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross. No. VII.--Preliminary report on the collection of Mollusca and Brachiopoda obtained in 1887-'88 Proceedings of the United States National Museum 12(773) 219-362, pls. 5-14. [Stated date: -- --- 1889; true date: -- --- 1890.]
Verrill, A. E. 1880. Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England American Journal of Science (3)20 390-403. [Stated date: -- Nov 1880.]
Verrill, A. E. 1885. Third catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 395-452, pls. 42-44.
Watson, R. B. 1881. Mollusca of H.M.S. 'Challenger' Expedition. Part IX Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 15 413-455. [Stated date: 03 Nov 1881.]

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