Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Acc. name: Plesiocleidochasma porcellanum (Busk, 1860); Syn.: Cleidochasma porcellanum Banta & Redden (1990); Hipporina porcellana (Busk, 1860), Lepralia porcellana Busk, 1860, Schedocleidochasma porcellanum (Busk, 1860) fide Horton et al. ( 2021). Note: H. cleidostoma and H. porcellama according to Hasting (1930) and Marcus (1937) was considered like a synonymous of H. porcellana (Osburn, 1947). Banta & Redden 1990 considered was H. porcellana and H. cleidostoma like a synonymus of Cleidochasma porcellanum Hipporina is accepted as Hippoporina (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution: (C. porcellanum) Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Gulf of California, Brazil, Pliocene, British Columbia, Peru, Mediterranean, Eastern Central Atlantic, Japan, Indonesia, New Zealand (Banta & Redden, 1990). (H. porcellana) Mediterranean sea, Madeira Island, Atlantic, Brazil, Southern California and Galapagos Island (Raymond Carroll Osburn, 1952)

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