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Type: Article
Published: 2014-02-11
Page range: 394–400
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On the identities of the molluscan names described in A Short Zoology of Tahiti in the Society Islands by Anthony Curtiss in 1938 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda, Gastropoda)

Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, Block S6, Science Drive 2, Singapore 117546, Republic of Singapore
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, Block S6, Science Drive 2, Singapore 117546, Republic of Singapore
French Polynesia shells cephalopods gastropods snails

Abstract

Anthony Curtiss described two species of cephalopod and nine species of gastropod molluscs from Tahiti. Herein, we discuss and determine the identities of these eleven names. Ten of these names are considered to be junior subjective synonyms of well-known taxa, and one an unavailable name.