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Ecphora meganae Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 †
1798935 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1798935)
accepted
Species
Ecphora (Ecphora) meganae Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 † · alternative representation
Ecphora meganae meganae Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 † · unaccepted
- Subspecies Ecphora meganae meganae Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 † accepted as Ecphora meganae Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 †
- Subspecies Ecphora meganae sandgatesensis Petuch, 1989 † accepted as Ecphora sandgatesensis Petuch, 1989 † (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subspecies Ecphora meganae williamsi Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 † accepted as Ecphora williamsi Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 † (unaccepted > superseded rank)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Ward, L. W. & Gilinsky, N. L. (1988). <i>Ecphora</i> (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Chesapeake Group of Maryland and Virginia. <em>Notulae Naturae.</em> 469: 1-21., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=XKLl6THZ74cC [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ecphora meganae Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1798935 on 2025-09-11
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original description
Ward, L. W. & Gilinsky, N. L. (1988). <i>Ecphora</i> (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Chesapeake Group of Maryland and Virginia. <em>Notulae Naturae.</em> 469: 1-21., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=XKLl6THZ74cC [details]
original description (of Ecphora meganae meganae Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 †) Ward, L. W. & Gilinsky, N. L. (1988). <i>Ecphora</i> (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Chesapeake Group of Maryland and Virginia. <em>Notulae Naturae.</em> 469: 1-21., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=XKLl6THZ74cC [details]
additional source Petuch, E. J. (1988). <i>Neogene History of Tropical American Mollusks</i>. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 217 pp., 23 figs + unnumbered figs, 39 pls.
page(s): 44-45, pl. 8 figs 4-5 [details]
original description (of Ecphora meganae meganae Ward & Gilinsky, 1988 †) Ward, L. W. & Gilinsky, N. L. (1988). <i>Ecphora</i> (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Chesapeake Group of Maryland and Virginia. <em>Notulae Naturae.</em> 469: 1-21., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=XKLl6THZ74cC [details]
additional source Petuch, E. J. (1988). <i>Neogene History of Tropical American Mollusks</i>. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 217 pp., 23 figs + unnumbered figs, 39 pls.
page(s): 44-45, pl. 8 figs 4-5 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
