Type catalogue of Terebridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, U. K.
Author
Salvador, Andreia
Author
Pickering, Joan
text
Zootaxa
2017
4250
2
101
142
journal article
33309
10.11646/zootaxa.4250.2.1
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Terebra
(
Abretia
)
antarctica
Smith, 1873
Smith, 1873
: 270.
Type locality: ‘Antarctic region’.
Label locality: No locality stated.
Presented: The Admiralty.
Type material: 4 syntypes NHMUK 1979142.
Remarks: The specimen selected as ‘holotype’ by
Cernohorsky (1969: 212)
and by
Bratcher & Cernohorsky (1987: 114)
,
NHMUK
1880.7
.2.5, is from a different source and locality (
Justice Gillies
,
New Zealand
) than the original publication, and for that reason is not a
type
specimen.
Therefore
that
type
selection is invalid.