The living species of the tulip shells: Fasciolaria and Cinctura (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda)

摘要

This is an expanded and revised version of Aigen (2002),summarizing all living species of the closely related Fasciolariinae (Superfamily Buccinoidea), genera Fasciolaria Lamarck, 1799, and Cinctura Hollister, 1957, over the Western Atlantic (including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean). A study of the fossil species will follow. This study separates the two genera I previously considered subgenera. Other major changes in this new publication are: 1) not using subspecific names (either I consider a population distinctive enough to be a species or I treat it as a variety, as per Rosenberg, Moretzsohn and Garcia, 2009,p.582); 2) increasing the number of living species covered from five to nine (six for Fasciolaria, three for Cinctura), and 3) relegating two more names to synonymy and restoring one.