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Echinogurges tuberculatus Quinn 1991

Echinogurges tuberculatus

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Echinogurges tuberculatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae.[1]

Description

The shell grows to a height of 4.6 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Cuba and Yucatan; in the Atlantic Ocean off Georgia, the Bahamas and the Florida Strait.

References

  • Quinn, J. F., Jr. 1991. New species of Gaza, Mirachelus, Calliotropis, and Echinogurges (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Nautilus 105: 166–172

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Echinogurges tuberculatus: Brief Summary

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Echinogurges tuberculatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae.

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Identification

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Discussed under the name Echinogurges rhysus R. B. Watson, 1979, but wrongly identified as such.

Reference

Quinn, J. F. Jr. (1979). Biological results of the University of Miami deep-sea expeditions. 130. The systematics & zoogeography of the gastropod family Trochidae collected in the Straits of Florida & its approaches. Malacologia. 19(1): 1-62.

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