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Data as of: 2006-05-17

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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 RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificOceaniaPolynesiaHawaiian Islands (Sandwich Islands)Hawaiian IslandsOahu
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificOceaniaPolynesiaHawaiian Islands (Sandwich Islands)Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificIndo-MalaysiaPhilippines

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 Röding, 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.