OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
Data as of: 2006-05-17
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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Costellariidae
Vexillum (Pusia) elliscrossi Rosenberg & Salisbury, 1991
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Unknown Vexillum elliscrossi Rosenberg & Salisbury, 1991
Distribution
Hawaiian Islands (Oahu); central Pacific guyots west of Midway Island
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Oceania: Polynesia: Hawaiian Islands (Sandwich Islands): Hawaiian Islands: Oahu
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Oceania: Polynesia: Hawaiian Islands (Sandwich Islands): Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Philippines
Keywords
depth: continental shelf [ 67 - 267 m
]
substrate: rocks
substrate: sand [ 1 specimen: "on a sand bottom";
1 specimen: "in rock and coralline algal rubble"
]
References
Rosenberg, G. & Salisbury, R. 1991. p.149 [ Additional reference types =
Contains synonymy, Type information,
Type locality, Type illustration (holotype:
Fig. 6; paratypes: Figs. 7-9)
] Distribution
Salisbury, R. 2000. p.223 General reference
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Visceroconcha
Gastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Sorbeoconcha
Hypsogastropoda
Neogastropoda
Volutoidea
Costellariidae
Vexillum R�ding, 1798
Vexillum (Pusia) Swainson, 1840
Vexillum (Pusia) elliscrossi Rosenberg & Salisbury, 1991
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=45029) created by Jason D. Weintraub on 2001-04-23. Record last updated by Gary Rosenberg on 2004-12-09.