Mangelia dobsoni explained

Mangelia dobsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

This is a taxon inquirendum.

Description

The figure published by Grabau and King is remarkably similar to the figure published by Dunker in 1860 as Mangelia costulata (Dunker, 1860) and now with the accepted name Mangelia dunkeri Kuroda, 1961

Distribution

This marine species occurs off China.

References

• Grabau, A. W. & S. G. King, 1928f, Shells of Peitaiho, 2nd ed. Peking Society of Natural History, Hand-Book No. 2: vi + 279 + [1 – Errata] pp., 11 pls.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Coan, Eugene V., et al. "The molluscan taxa of AW Grabau & SG King (1928) and their types." Malacologia 58.1–2 (2015): 179-224.

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Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/bulletinunitedst911915unit P. Bartsch (1915), Report on the Turton collection of South African marine mollusks, with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United States National Museum; Bulletin of the United States National Museum v. 91 (1915)