Stromboidea

• Strombidae
  • Euprotomus
    • Euprotomus bulla x vomer

History and Synonymy

1942

Original Description as Strombus hirasei Kuroda, 1942

• Holotype: NSMT 60925
• Locus typicus: Okinawa Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Strombus hirasei Kuroda, 1942; Holotype; Photo Ron Voskuil; Copyright "The Festivus"; Original published in Kronenberg, 1999

1999

Following Kronenberg, 1999, Euprotomus hirasei is the hybrid: Euprotomus bulla x vomer

Specimens from private collections

Euprotomus bulla x vomer; hybrid form; Balabio Island, North Province, New Caledonia, Melanesia; 15-30 m, dived alive on sand at night; 57.3 mm; 2010; Coll. Aart Dekkers no. STR1767

Euprotomus bulla x vomer; hybrid form; New Caledonia, Melanesia; Coll. Virgilio Liverani

References

• Aart M. Dekkers, 2012. On a fourth hybrid specimen between Euprotomus bulla (Röding, 1798) and Euprotomus vomer (Röding, 1798) (Gastropoda: Strombidae), Gloria Maris 51(4), pp. 80-84.
• Kronenberg, G.C. 2002. Addendum to a revision of Euprotomus Gill, 1870. 2a. On the identity of Strombus hirasei Kuroda, 1942 (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Strombidae). – The Festivus 34(9): 110.