Species
Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868)
Taxon description
Bromley & D'Alessandro, 1984
Diagnosis: Non-camerate entobian, organized in an irregular boxwork system becoming more or less complexly intermeshed in the mature stages. The galleries are subcylindrical, frequently bifurcated, swollen at nodal points where, usually, several galleries conjoin. Apertures large and numerous, circular or oval in shape, rarely fused, disposed irregularly. Phase A reduced; phases B-D well developed.
Synonymy list
1866 Cliona megastoma nomen nudum — Fischer , pp. 198
1868 Cliona megastoma — Fisher , pp. 165, fig. 24:2
1932 Cliona cretacica — Fenton & Fenton
1984 Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868) — Bromley & D'Alessandro , pp. 250, fig. 23:3; 24:2, 3; 26:1; 27:2
1991 Entobia megastoma (Fischer) — Feige & Fürsich , pp. 93
1991 Entobia megastoma Bromley & D'Alessandro — Radtke , pp. 48-49, fig. 1:3
1992 Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868) — Mikulaš , pp. 304, fig. 7:4; 8:2
2004 Entobia megastoma (Fischer, 1868) — Blissett & Pickerill , pp. 175, fig. 5/3
Selection of related publications
Feige, A., Fürsich, F. T. 1991. Taphonomy of the Recent molluscs of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico). Zitteliana 18, 89-133.
Klassificering
References based on distribution
- Feige & Fürsich, 1991 Recent