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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Daphnellinae

Rimosodaphnella morra (Dall, 1881)


Range: 35.14°N to 30°S; 94°W to 44°W
Depth: 9 to 823 m (live 9 to 73 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 8  mm

Synonymy

Pleurotoma occidentalis Reeve, 1846
Clathurella occidentalis (Reeve, 1846) 
Pleurotoma morra Dall, 1881
Mangilia morra (Dall, 1881) 
Daphnella morra (Dall, 1881) 
Veprecula morra (Dall, 1881) 

Details


Pleurotoma (Drillia) morra Dall, 1881, p. 69-70
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Off Havana
Range: 35.14°N to 30°S; 94°W to 44°W
Depth: 9 to 823 m (live 9 to 73 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 8 mm
Distribution: USA: North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida: East Florida, West Florida; USA: Texas; Colombia, Cuba: North Havana Province; Puerto Rico, Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul
References: Dall (1881) D; Dall (1889a) N; Odé (1992b) dLl; Kaicher (1984c) c
Combining Genera:  Daphnella Mangilia Veprecula

Pleurotoma occidentalis Reeve, 1846a,  pl. 39, fig. 357
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: West Indies
Comments: Has priority if the synonymy is correct.
Combining Genera:  Clathurella


Partial List of References

Dall, W. H. 1881. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877-79, by the United States Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake,' Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 9 33-144. [True date: -- Aug 1881.]
Reeve, L. 1846. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma Conchologia Iconica 1 pls. 34-40

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