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 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.