Pseudoliva guppyi Mansfield 1925 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1925. Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66(22):9116-9125

Belongs to Pseudoliva according to W. C. Mansfield 1925

Sister taxa: Pseudoliva (Fusopsis), Pseudoliva adelkei, Pseudoliva binodosa, Pseudoliva bocaserpentis, Pseudoliva coronaria, Pseudoliva elegans, Pseudoliva funkeana, Pseudoliva inornata, Pseudoliva laudunensis, Pseudoliva leutweini, Pseudoliva lutulenta, Pseudoliva modesta, Pseudoliva monilis, Pseudoliva packardi, Pseudoliva perspectiva, Pseudoliva praetermissa, Pseudoliva reticulata, Pseudoliva rogersi, Pseudoliva serrata, Pseudoliva thielei, Pseudoliva tuberculifera, Pseudoliva umpquaensis, Pseudoliva unicarinata, Pseudoliva vetusta

Type specimen: USNM 352664, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 9224, which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in Trinidad and Tobago.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 9224

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