Species Recluzia lutea (Bennett, 1840)

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• Janthina lutea Bennett, F.D. 1840. Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Around the Globe from the Year 1833-1836. Comprising sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, etc., with an account of southern whales, the sperm whale fishery, and the natural history of the climates visited. London : Bentley Vol. 2 395 pp. 2 pls. [63, 98].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHNP 25667 (syntype of Recluzia jehennei Petit de la Saussaye, 1853 (Figs. 36F, G)).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Beu, A.G. 2017. Evolution of Janthina and Recluzia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Records of the Australian Museum 69(3): 119–222 [203].
• Janthina turrita Philippi, R.A. 1849. Centuria altera testaceorum novorum (continuatio Febr. 1849). Zeitschrift für Malakozöologie Jahrgang 1848: 123–150 [15].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHNP 25667 (syntype of Recluzia jehennei Petit de la Saussaye, 1853 (Figs. 36F, G)), "open ocean, in the Gulf of Arabia".

  Subsequent designation references:

  Beu, A.G. 2017. Evolution of Janthina and Recluzia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Records of the Australian Museum 69(3): 119–222 [203].
• Recluzia jehennei Petit de la Saussaye, M.S. 1853. Description d'un genre nouveau, G. Recluzia, appartenant a la famille des Janthinidees. Journal de Conchyliologie 4: 116-120 [118].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHNP 25667, "open ocean, in the Gulf of Arabia".
• Recluzia rollandiana Petit de la Saussaye, M.S. 1853. Description d'un genre nouveau, G. Recluzia, appartenant a la famille des Janthinidees. Journal de Conchyliologie 4: 116-120 [119, pl. 5, fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHNP 25667, "open ocean, in the Gulf of Arabia".
  Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (probably lost), “environs de Mazatlan” [= New Caledonia].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Beu, A.G. 2017. Evolution of Janthina and Recluzia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Records of the Australian Museum 69(3): 119–222 [203].
• Recluzia bensoni Adams, A. 1861. On a supposed new genus and on some new species of Pelagic molluscs. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 8: 401-404 [402].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHM-UK 1878.1.28.394, “China Sea”.
• Recluzia montrouzieri Souverbie, S.M. 1872. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 20: 49-59 [57, pl. 1, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MHNBX 2004.TY.163, Art Island, New Caledonia.
• Recluzia globosa Smith, E.A. 1876. A list of marine shells, chiefly from the Solomon Islands, with descriptions of several new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 12: 535–562, pl. 30 [551, pl. 30, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHM-UK 1876.1.10.119, “Tarawa, Gilbert Group".
• Limnaea? palmeri Dall, W.H. 1871. Descriptions of sixty new forms of mollusks from the west coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with notes on others already described. American Journal of Conchology 7(2): 93–160, pls 13-16 [135].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 56411, delta of the Taqui River, near Guaymas, Mexico, head of the Gulf of California.

Generic Combinations

• Recluzia lutea (Bennett, 1840). —
  Powell, A.W.B. 1924. Notes on New Zealand Mollusca. New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology 6(5,6): 282-286 [285]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

The species occurs uncommonly throughout the world tropical and temperate ocean, but its limits are very poorly known (Beu 2017)

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