Stromboidea
Original Description of Strombus haitensis by Sowerby, 1850:
- "Testa suboblongo-turbinata, transversim sulcata, spira pyramidali, acuminata, subundulata, varicosa, anfractibus novem, ultimo ad dorsum tuberculato, tuberculorum seriebus duabus, altera postica, tuberculis subdepresso-acuminatis; altera antica, tuberculis duobus vel tribus sistente; tuberculo parvo prope labium remoto; apertura elongata, labii externi crassi margine inflexo."
Locus typicus: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Strombus haitensis Sowerby, 1850, pl. IX, fig. 7
Strombus haitensis Lectotype; "Miocene"; Yaque river, San Domingo; Coll. BM(NH) G83937, Copyright BM(NH)
Strombus haitensis Syntype; "Miocene"; Yaque river, San Domingo; Coll. BM(NH) GG20051, Copyright BM(NH)
History and Synonymy
1848
Strombus haytensis [ex MS Sowerby]
2008
B. M. Landau et al. 2008 recombined Strombus haitensis as Lobatus haitensis
Specimens from institutional collections
Lobatus haitensis; Dominican Republic; 89 mm; Coll. NMB 16865; Photo Virgilio Liverani
Lobatus haitensis; Canada de Zamba, Dominican Republic; 60 mm; ex Coll. Jung & Geister, 1979, Coll. NMB 16818; Photo Virgilio Liverani
Lobatus haitensis; Coll. NMB 16828; Photo Virgilio Liverani
Lobatus haitensis; Coll. NMB; Photo Virgilio Liverani
Lobatus haitensis; Coll. NMB; Photo Virgilio Liverani
Lobatus haitensis; Coll. NMB; Photo Virgilio Liverani
Specimens from private collections
Lobatus haitensis; Gurabo Formation, Miocene; Dominican Republic; Coll. Gijs Kronenberg No. 6343
References
- W.H. Dall, 1885. List of marine mollusca comprising the Quaternary fossils and Recent forms from American localities between Cape Hatteras and Cape Roque including the Bermudas. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 24, pp. 1-336
- James Robert Freiheit & Dana H. Geary, 2009. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 23. Strombid Gastropods (Genera Strombus and Lobatus; Mollusca: Gastropoda: Strombidae) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology No. 376, pp. 1-54, pls. 1-9
- B. M. Landau, G. C. Kronenberg, and G. S. Herbert. 2008. A large species of Lobatus (Gastropoda: Strombidae) from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic, with notes on the genus. The Veliger 50(1):31-38
- J. Carrick Moore, 1850. On some Tertiary Beds in the Island of San Domingo: from Notes by J. S. Heniker, Esq., with Remarks on the Fossils. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1850; v. 6; issue.1-2; p. 39-44
- R. Moscatelli, 1987
