Comprehensive Description
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Septa (Monoplex) parthenopea parthenopea (von Salis, 1793)
Murex parthenopeus von Salis, 1793:370 [Bay of Naples],
Triton olearium (Linné).—E. A. Smith, 1890a:267.
Lotorium grandimaculatum Reeve.—Melvill and Standen, 1907:152.
Cymatium costatum Born.—Nicklés, 1950:86.
Cymatium (Monoplex) parthenopeum von Salis.—Clench and Turner, 1957:228 [synonymy].—Nordsieck, 1968:109.
Septa (Monoplex) parthenopea parthenopea (Salis, 1793).—Beu, 1970b:229 [synonymy].
PRESENT MATERIAL.—2 specimens (71.1 mm) Ascension, K. M. Hutchfield.
DISTRIBUTION.—Western Mediterranean, Azores, and south to South Africa; Bermuda, Florida, and Mexico; the West Indies and south to Brazil, Japan, eastern Australia, northern New Zealand, and Portuguese East Africa.
- 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
