A systematic revision of the genus Juga from fresh waters of the Pacific Northwest, USA (Cerithioidea, Semisulcospiridae)
Author
Strong, Ellen E.
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National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC 163, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA.
StrongE@si.edu
Author
Garner, Jeffrey T.
F1E75231-0933-4490-B176-4DCF681EC71E
350 County Road 275, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Florence, Alabama 35633, USA.
Jeffrey.Garner@dcnr.alabama.gov
Author
Johnson, Paul D.
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2200 Highway 175, Alabama Aquatic Biodiversity Center, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Marion, Alabama 36756, USA.
Paul.Johnson@dcnr.alabama.gov
Author
Whelan, Nathan V.
ECF031F9-BB78-41BD-BC9E-C789E1360202
Southeast Conservation Genetics Lab, Warm Springs Fish Technology Center, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA. 4 School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA.
nathan_whelan@fws.gov
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2022
2022-12-07
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.848.1993
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Goniobasis rubiginosa
I.
Lea, 1862
This name was established by
Lea (1862: 270
;
1863a: 333–334
, pl. 38 fig. 193; 1863b: 155–156, pl. 38 fig. 193) based on
two specimens
sent to him by Wesley Newcomb, M.D., from “
Oregon
”.
Tryon (1864
,
1865
,
1866
,
1873
) considered the species to be valid, despite having seen specimens only from Lea’s collection, and was confident they would be plicate if the initial whorls were not eroded (
Tryon 1865: 244
).
Pilsbry (1899)
also considered the species to be valid.
Henderson (1929)
identified
two specimens
as this species in a lot of eight from Ahtanum Creek, Union Gap, in Yakima County,
Washington
; the other specimens in the lot were identified as
Goniobasis draytonii
.
Henderson (1936b: 274)
later admitted that one of the specimens was quite young, and in the other the carina was evidently the “result of disease or injury”. As mentioned above, the lot in question (UCM 15814) appears to be
J. bulbosa
as circumscribed herein and it does not resemble
Lea’s (1863a
,
1863b
: pl. 38 fig. 193) original illustration of
rubiginosa
(
Fig. 27B
).
Frest & Johannes (1995a: 246)
provided the common name “Rusty
Juga
”, and listed
J.
(
J.
)
rubiginosa
among species of uncertain status but considered it a potentially valid species and local endemic of conservation concern owing to agricultural impacts in the Yakima Valley. Later,
Frest& Johannes (2010: 6)
indicated it could be
J. plicifera
, but again expressed doubts as to its identity as a
Juga
. Other authors have considered the species to be conspecific with
J. silicula
(
Goodrich, 1942
;
Burch & Tottenham 1980
;
Burch 1982
,
1989
). J.P.E. Morrison annotated the label of the
lectotype
, USNM 119297 (
Graf 2001
;
Fig. 27B
), that the locality was incorrect, and was “probably North or
South Carolina
”. Given that no
Juga
species
are known to possess a single, prominent spiral keel, we agree with the interpretation of Morrison that this species is a mislocalized eastern North American pleurocerid. The
paralectotype
is filed under
Elimia symmetrica
(Haldeman, 1841)
in the USNM collections. Three
paralectotypes
in the Newcomb collections at the Paleontological Research Institute (PRI 21730) appear conspecific with the specimens in the USNM.