Comprehensive Description
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Arcopsis adamsi (Dall, 1886)
Arca adamsi Dall, 1886:243 [off Havana and near Santa Lucia (West Indies); new name for Arca lactea Linné, C. B. Adams, not Linné, and for Arca caelata Conrad, not Reeve].—Smith, 1890c:499.—Lamy, 1907:104.
Arca (Acar) lactea Linné—E. A. Smith, 1890b:322.—Stearns, 1893:320.
Arcopsis adamsi Dall.—Warmke and Abbott, 1961:159.
PREVIOUS. ASCENSIO. RECORDS.—E. A. Smith (1890b), Stearns (1893 — as Arca lactea [?]).
PRESEN. MATERIAL.—1 specimen (10.8 mm) ASC 11; 5 specimens (9.6 mm) ASC 18, R. B. Manning, May 1971; 1 specimen (7.8 mm) Ascension, USNM 125406, U.S. Eclipse Expedition, 1889–1890 (Stearns, 1893).
DISTRIBUTION.—North Carolina to Brazil (Warmke and Abbott, 1961), Bermuda (Lamy, 1907), Fernando de Noronha (Smith, 1890c), Ascension.
- bibliographic citation
- Rosewater, Joseph. 1975. "An annotated list of the marine mollusks of Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-41. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.189
