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MCZ Malacology 258352

Vertigo dentifera Pease, 1871

Lectotype of Vertigo dentifera  
  Lectotype of Nesopupa dentifera

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2004-05-27

Oceania: New Zealand: Cook Islands: Cook Islands: Aitutaki | [no specific locality data]

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Mala:258352 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Malacology 258352 Aspect: dorsal

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Mala:258352 Vertigo dentifera Lectotype Aspect: dorsal

Media type: image; Malacology 258352 Aspect: lateral

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Mala:258352 Vertigo dentifera Lectotype Aspect: lateral

Media type: image; Malacology 258352 Aspect: apertural

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Current Identification
Vertigo dentifera Pease, 1871
Animalia Mollusca Gastropoda Heterobranchia Stylommatophora Orthurethra Pupilloidea Pupillidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: type ID

Johnson 1994, page 11, Lectotype of Vertigo dentifera Pease, 1871
Gargominy 2008, page 529, Lectotype of Nesopupa dentifera (Pease, 1871)
Media type: text; Johnson 1994 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. CLIV no. 1;

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Shows Publication: Johnson 1994 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. CLIV no. 1

Media type: text; Gargominy 2008 Description: abstract;

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Shows Publication: Gargominy 2008 Description: abstract

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Part Condition Disposition Count
shell (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Pacific Island Land Snail Biodiversity Repository (PILSBRy) By: Adam J. Baldinger 2020-10-16
associated grant Pacific Island Land Snail Biodiversity Repository (PILSBRy) By: Alana Rivera 2021-04-23
Remarks: imaged, locality vetted
reference Pease, W.H. 1871. Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1871: 462. Johnson, R.I. 1994. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 154(1):11 [no agent data], Method: migration 2009-10-18

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  • Label with spec. gives "fig'd Man Conch. vol. 25, pl. 30, f. 14" Second hand written label with spec. gives "Ex. MCZ 48314". Housed in collection with Pupillidae as Nesopupa dentifera.

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  • Ocean:
  • Oceania
  • Country:
  • New Zealand
  • State/Province:
  • Cook Islands
  • Island Group:
  • Cook Islands
  • Island:
  • Aitutaki
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • [no specific locality data]
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Pacific Ocean, Cook Islands, Roratonga (=Aitutaki)
  • Locality Remarks:
  • georefenced to include smaller islands around Aitutaki. Aitutaki, also traditionally known as Araʻura and Utataki, is one of the Cook Islands, north of Rarotonga.
  • Georeference:
  • -18.887231, -159.78058 (Error radius: 9041m) By: Adam J. Baldinger on 2020-10-16 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2004-05-27
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • End of date collected range set to latest date of data entry for a cataloged item in this collecting event
  • Collector:
  • [no agent data]

  • None

Media type: text; Malacology 258351; 258352; 258353; 258354; 258355; 258356; 258357; 258358; 258359; 258360; 258361; 258362; 258363; 258364; 258365; 258366; 258367; 258368; 258369; 258370; 258371; 258372; 258373; 258374; 258375 Description: MCZ Malacology Mollusca 258001-263000, pg.15;

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Ledger Entry for:
MCZ:Mala:258351 Lithophaga aristata
MCZ:Mala:258352 Vertigo dentifera Lectotype
MCZ:Mala:258353 Tarebia granifera
MCZ:Mala:258354 Melanoides tubercu...

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