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Species Venus subalbicans Hupé 1854 |
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Griffin & Nielsen (2008):
TYPE MATERIAL. There are two syntypes in the Typothèque of the Laboratoire de Géologie under number MNHN-Gg2002/58, plus a few unidentifiable fragments.
REMARKS. Philippi (1887, p. 122) had doubts whether this species came from Cretaceous or from Tertiary rocks, but it definitely comes from the Pliocene Tubul Formation in Península Arauco, where it is a very common species (own unpublished data). The shell interior of the syntypes is not available, and they are not very well preserved. However, there can be no doubt that this species is a synonym of Venus aerea Hupé (1854, p. 338-339), which is cited as coming from Quiriquina and Concepción but listed in Catalogue 8P as coming from the same locality (“76 – Arauco”) as Venus subalbicans. Both species were synonymised by Nielsen & Valdovinos (submitted) with Retrotapes exalbidus (Dillwyn, 1817). See also the comments under aerea Hupé, 1854 [Venus] herein. |
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Hupé,H.. (1854): Malacología y conquiliología.. In: Historia física y política de Chile Vol. 8 Eds: Gay, C.. p. 449
Philippi,R.A.. (1887): Die tertiären und quartären Versteinerungen Chiles.. p. 266
Griffin,M.. and Nielsen,S.N.. (2008): A revision of the type specimens of Tertiary molluscs from Chile and Argentina described by d’Orbigny (1842), Sowerby (1846), and Hupé (1854) . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
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