Drillia macleani, new name for Drillia sinuosa McLean and Poorman, 1971 (Gastropoda: Turridae)

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THE NAUTILUS 106(2):76, 1992 Page 76
Drillia macleani, New Name for Drillia sinuosa McLean and
Poorman, 1971 (Gastropoda: Turridae)
John K. Tucker
Department of Biological Sciences
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61761 USA
During the preparation of a catalog of the family Tur- Remarks: The holotype is in the collection of the Los
ridae, I found the name Drillia sinuosa McLean and Angeles County Museum of Natural History (LACM
Poorman, 1971, which was applied to a Recent eastern 1491). The type locality is off the southernmost coast of
pacific species, tobe preoccupied by Drillia sinuosa Bel- Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (0°47'S,
iardi, 1877, which was applied to an unrelated species 90°21'W), in 150 m, collected 10 June 1968 by Andre
from the Middle Miocene of Italy. In order to rectify and Jacqueline DeRoy.
this homonymy and to acknowledge the seminal work I thank Dr. James H. McLean and an anonymous
on turrids done by the senior author of the preoccupied referee for reading the manuscript.
taxon, Drillia macleaniishereproposedasareplacement
name for the eastern Pacific species. LITERATURE CITED
Drillia macleani Tucker, nomen novum Bellardi, L. 1877. I molluschi dei terreni Terziarii del Pied-
monte e della Liguria, 2. Torino. 364 p., 7 pis.
Drillia sinuosa McLean and Poorman, 1971:96, fig. 16., Keen, A. M. 1971. Seashellsof tropical west America, second
McLean in Keen, 1971:#1622. edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1064 p.
McLean, H and R Poorman, 1971 Newspeciesoftropical
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Not Drillia sinuosa Bellardi, 1877:126, pl.4, figs. 18a,b. eastern Pacific Turridae. The Veliger 14(1):89-113.