Description

Original Description: F.M. Bayer: "A new Pleurotomariid Gastropod trawled in the Straits of Florida by R/V Gerda"; Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, Vol. 13, 1963.

The holotype is in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; USNM 635625

Synonomies:

Mikadotrochus amabilis Bayer, 1963; Fretter, 1964

Pleurotomaria (Mikadotrochus) amabilis Shikama & Horikoshi, 1963

Pleurotomaria amabilis Abbott & Dance, 1982; Glass & Foster, 1986

Perotrochus amabilis Bayer, 1965; Cross & Morrison, 1971; Abbott, 1974; Okutani, 1987; Harasewych & Askew, 1993; Anseeuw & Goto, 1996; Williams, Karube & Ozawa, 2008; Anseeuw, 2010; WoRMS, 2010

GenBank - Perotrochus amabilis