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Stromboidea


Original Description of Strombus pugiloides by Guppy, 1873, p. 82:

  • "The shell for which I propose the above appellation considered to be Strombus pugilis by Mr Carrick Moore. The name was misprinted fragilis in his paper in Journal of the Geological Society, vol. xix, p. 511. In my papers on the tertiary fossils of Jamaica and the Westindies the species was recorded under the name Str. pugilis. In ordinary specimens like those usually found in Haiti, and elsewhere the only well-marked differences that can be noticed between the fossil shell and the recent Strombus pugilis are that in the former the last whorl is usually devoid of the spiniform tubercles and that the shell is of shorter and broader figure. But some examples supplied me by my friend Mr. Vendryes exhibit an unexpected character. They show cheyron-shaped bands of color about 12-15 on tho last whorl. Each band takes the shape of a V, the apex of which occurs near the middle of the whorl and forms an angle of about 30° pointing backwards or away from the aperture. These bands of color are about 2 mm. wide and the spaces between are about 3 mm. Numerous specimens of the recent Str. pugilis have passed through my hands, but I have noticed the slightest approach to such a character. The recent shell is pale red or pink only relieved by an indistinct band of paler tint following the middle of the whorl. A less constant difference may be found in the low rounded lamellar dentition inside the outer lip which is very faint or altogether wanting in Strombus pugilis, but more marked in the fossil."

Locus typicus: Bowden, Jamaica

Stratum typicum: Bowden Formation, Pliocene

Status

  • Strombus pugiloides is a subjective synonym of Strombus proximus according to Freiheit & Geary, 2009
  • Strombus pugiloides is a valid species according to Landau et al., 2011

Strombus pugiloides; Bowden Formation, Pliocene; Bowden, Jamaica; ex coll. Trechmann, coll. BMNH GG3931-3, Copyright BMNH

Strombus pugiloides; Bowden Formation, Pliocene; Bowden, Bowden Shop, Bowden shell bed, Outcrop opened by bulldozer, Loc. NMB 11146, Jamaica; coll. E. Robinson, P. Jung, Myrtle Haase et al., 12.5.1969, Coll. Naturhistisches Museum Basel, Photo Virgilio Liverani

Strombus pugiloides; Bowden Formation, Pliocene; Bowden, Bowden Shop, Bowden shell bed, Outcrop opened by bulldozer, Loc. NMB 11146, Jamaica; coll. E. Robinson, P. Jung, Myrtle Haase et al., 12.5.1969, Coll. Naturhistisches Museum Basel, Photo Virgilio Liverani

Strombus pugiloides; Bocas del Toro, Escudo de Veraguas, N coast of island, ca 100 m NNW of PJ 1922 (17837): small island without vedgetation, about 20 m E of reef crest: silts with few large and many small molluscs, Loc. NMB 17838, Panamá (C.); Photo Virgilio Liverani

  • specimen figured in Landau, Kronenberg, Herbert & Silva, 2011: pl. 5, figs. 14-15

Strombus cf. pugiloides; Burico, Rio Rabo de Puerca; Coll. NMB Loc. NMB 19063, Photo Virgilio Liverani

Strombus cf pugiloides; Limon, Costa Rica; Rio Banano Formation, Piacenzian, Pliocene; 64 mm; Coll. NMB 17448, Photo Virgilio Liverani

Strombus cf pugiloides; Dominican Republic; 52 mm; Coll. NMB 17781; Photo Virgilio Liverani

Strombus cf pugiloides; Dominican Republic; 63 mm; Coll. NMB 17452; Photo Virgilio Liverani

Strombus cf pugiloides; Coll. NMB 17477; Photo Virgilio Liverani

Strombus cf pugiloides; Coll. NMB; Photo Virgilio Liverani

Strombus pugiloides; Veracruz, Mexico; Agueguexquite Formation, Pliocene; Coll. UNAM IGM 2037, Photo & Copyright Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Colección Nacional de Paleontología


References

  • Bandel, 2007
  • Gabb, 1877
  • Glibert, 1963
  • Gómez Pignataro, L. D., and C. Valerio G. 1971. Lista preliminar ilustrada de los moluscos fósiles de la formación Río Banano (Mioceno), Limón, Costa Rica. In Informe Semestral enero-junio., 43-62. San José: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
  • Gómez Pignataro, L. D., and C. Valerio G. 1973. Lista preliminar ilustrada de los moluscos fósiles de la formación Río Banano (Mioceno), Limón, Costa Rica. II. In Informe Semestral enero-junio., 11-22. San José: Instituto Geográfico Naiconal.
  • R. J. Lechmere Guppy. 1873. On some new Tertiary fossils from Jamaica. Proceedings of the Science Association of Trinidad 2(2): 72-88, London, Fulltext
  • R. J. Lechmere Guppy, 1874. On the West Indian Tertiary Fossils. Geological Magazine (1874), Decade II, 1:433-446
  • R. J. Lechmere Guppy, 1876. On the Miocene Fossils of Haiti. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1876; v. 32; issue.1-4; p. 516-532
  • Hargreave, 1995
  • Kronenberg & Berkhout, 1984
  • Olsson, 1922
  • Weisbord, 1962

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