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Nassarius wesselinghi, new name for the homonymous N. reductus Vermeij and Wesselingh, 2002 (Gastropoda: Nassariidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

W. O. Cernohorsky  and
G. J. Vermeij
W. O. Cernohorsky
Affiliation:
1
G. J. Vermeij
Affiliation:
2Department of Geology, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA,
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Vermeij and Wesselingh (2002: 267, figs. 3 and 4) named a small freshwater gastropod from the Pebas Formation (middle Miocene) of Peruvian Amazonia as ?Nassarius reductus new species. This name turns out to be a secondary homonym of Nassa reticulata var. reducta Dollfus, 1926 (p. 103-106), a taxon from the Pliocene of Albania. The genus name Nassa as used by Dollfus is a misused variant on the correct genus name Nassarius Duméril, 1806. Although the Peruvian species is clearly not a Nassarius in the strict sense (restricted to the marine Indo-West Pacific region) a global phylogenetic analysis of Nassariidae is needed before its proper allocation can be determined, as already noted by Vermeij and Wesselingh (2002). We here rename the Peruvian fossil as Nassarius (s.l.) wesselinghi in honor of Frank P. Wesselingh who discovered the species. We thank Richard E. Petit for pointing out Dollfus's monograph to us.

Type
Taxonomic Note
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 178
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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