‘Cleaning the Egyptian sphinx with a toothbrush’: one of the largest Neoterebra (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the Caribbean Sea needs a name
Résumé
A new species of Neoterebra is described and compared to its congeners in both the W Atlantic and E Pacific; a revision of a number of taxa, based on type material and additional samples, is undertaken to clarify the status of a number of taxa in the synonymy of Neo-terebra dislocata (Caribbean) on the one hand ànd Neo-terebra petiveriana, Neoterebra hancocki and Neo-terebra glauca (W America) on the other hand. These include Terebra rudis, Terebra petitii, Terebra onslow-ensis and Terebra radula.
Mots clés
Terebridae
Neoterebra
Neoterebra aspera
Neoterebra radula
Neoterebra glauca
Neoterebra peti-veriana
Neoterebra dislocata
Terebra rudis
Terebra sowerbyana
Neoterebra onslowensis
Neoterebra petitii
Neoterebra armillata
Neoterebra dorothyae
Neo-terebra salvadorae
Shell morphology
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
SE United States
Bahamas
Columbia
Venezuela
Ecuador
Mexico
Panama
sp. nov.