Epitoniidae Berry, 1910 (1812)

Recluzia

Petit de la Saussaye, 1853

Genotype:

Recluzia jehennei Petit de la Saussaye, 1853 accepted as Recluzia lutea (Bennett, 1840) (type by subsequent designation)

Literature cited:

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Recluzia lutea (Bennett, 1840)

Beu, A. G. (2017). pp: 123. Plate 2. Fig. S-T.

Recluzia lutea (Bennett), GNS RM6748, beach, Great Exhibition Bay, Northland, New Zealand (from same sample as Figs 36M

Species List.

Species

Size mm
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Costae
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Umbilicus

Records

Distribution

Recluzia johnii
(Holten, 1802)

Pacific Ocean, from Japan to the Pacific coast of Mexico; northern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea; Sth Africa; Australia, QLD to NSW

Recluzia lutea
(Bennett, 1840)

Tropical and temperate oceans. Indo-West Pacific; Tarawa & Gilbert Islands [Smith, 1865]; Solomon Islands, New Zealand, NSW, Queensland, NSW, Tasmania, as well as wetsern and nortehrn Australia; central Japan; Red Sea [Beu, 2017:206]; Eastern Pacific; entire Gulf of Mexico, East Florida to Brazil [Rosenberg et al, 2009]; Brazil [Rios, 1985:160]