Megasurcula tremperiana

Megasurcula tremperiana
Shell of Megasurcula tremperiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Megasurcula
Species:	M. tremperiana
Binomial name
Megasurcula tremperiana (W. H. Dall, 1911)
Synonyms [1]
Bathytoma tremperiana(Dall, 1911) Cryptoconus tremperianusDall, 1911

Megasurcula tremperiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. ^[1]

Taxonomy

There is some confusion about the accepted name for this species. The website Gastropods.com considers this species a synonym of Mangelia carpenteri(Folin, L. de, 1867) It was also considered a synonym of Bathytoma tremperiana(Dall, 1911), ^[2] itself considered by W.H. Dall a synonym of Cryptoconus tremperianusDall, 1911. ^[3] But then WoRMS considers this last name a synonym of Megasurcula carpenteriana (Gabb, 1865) ^[4]

Description

The length of the shell attains 60 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off California.

References

1. Megasurcula tremperiana (Dall, 1911) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 31 March 2010.
2. Boss, Kenneth J - Rosewater, Joseph, - Ruhoff, Florence A, The Zoological Taxa of William Healey Dall; Bulletin - United States National Museum. Volume: 287 Pages: 1--427 (1968)
3. Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
4. MolluscaBase (2018). Megasurcula carpenteriana (Gabb, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=579016 on 2018-12-07

• W.H. Dall (1911), Notes on California shells (II). The Nautilus, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 109–112,

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Gastropods.com: Mangelia carpenteri
• .The marine mollusks and brachiopods of Monterey Bay,California, and vicinity; Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series v.26 (1948-1950)