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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Pyramidelloidea: Turbonillinae

Turbonilla coomansi van Aartsen, 1994


Range: 35°N to 23°S; 95°W to 44°W
Depth: 0 to 538 m (live 91 to 91 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 3.4  mm

Synonymy

Chemnitzia pusilla C. B. Adams, 1850
Turbonilla minor Bush, 1899
Pyrgiscus minor (Bush, 1899) 
Turbonilla adamsi Cossmann, 1912
Turbonilla coomansi van Aartsen, 1994

Details


Turbonilla coomansi van Aartsen, 1994, p. 198
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Jamaica
Distribution: Jamaica

Turbonilla adamsi Cossmann, 1912, 
[Objective synonym of valid name]
Distribution: Jamaica
Comments: Non Clessin, 1902.

Turbonilla minor Bush, 1899, p. 172
[Objective synonym of valid name]
Type Locality: Jamaica
Range: 12°N to 9.75°N; 82.58°W to 69°W
Distribution: Costa Rica, Jamaica
References: Odé & Speers (1972c); Espinosa & Ortea (2001a) SW
Comments: Non Seguenza, 1876; new name for Chemnitzia pusilla C. B. Adams, 1850 non Philippi, 1844.
Combining Genera:  Pyrgiscus

Chemnitzia pusilla C. B. Adams, 1850d, p. 74, Not figured
[Objective synonym of valid name]
Type Locality: Jamaica
Range: 35°N to 23°S; 95°W to 44°W
Depth: 0 to 538 m (live 91 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 3.4 mm
Distribution: USA: Louisiana, Texas; Colombia, Jamaica, Brazil: Rio de Janeiro
References: C. B. Adams (1850d) M; Odé & Speers (1972a); Rios (1975) d; Odé (1995c) LlW
Comments: Non Philippi, 1844.


Partial List of References

Aartsen, J. J. van. 1994. Turbonilla coomansi, a new name for Turbonilla pusilla (C. B. Adams, 1850) non T. pusilla (Philippi, 1844) (Gastropoda Opisthobranchia, Pyramidellidae) Basteria 58 198. [Stated date: 28 Dec 1994.]
Adams, C. B. 1850. Descriptions of supposed new species of marine shells, which inhabit Jamaica Contributions to Conchology 5 69-75. [Stated date: -- Feb 1850.]
Bush, K. J. 1899. Descriptions of new species of Turbonilla of the Western Atlantic fauna, with notes on those previously known Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 51 145-177, pl. 8.

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