Gaza

Gaza superba

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Trochoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Vetigastropoda Ordo: Trochida Superfamilia: Trochoidea

Familia: Margaritidae
Genus: Gaza
Species (8): G. compta – G. cubana – G. daedala – G. fischeri – G. olivacea – G. polychoronos – G. rathbuni – G. superba

[source: WoRMS]

Name

Gaza Watson, 1879: 601

• Type species: Gaza daedala Watson, 1879
  • Fixation: original designation [see p. 602 [and monotypy]

References

Primary references

• Watson, R.B. 1879. Mollusca of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ Expedition: III Trochidae, viz. the genera Seguenzia, Basilissa, Gaza and Bembix. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 14(78): 586–605. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02453.x. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Abbott, R.T. 1974: American seashells, second edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 663 pp + 24 pls.
• Clench, W.J. & Abbott, R.T. 1943: The genera Gaza and Livona in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia 12: 1–12.
• Dall, W.H. 1889: Reports on the results of dredgings, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879–80), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer 'Blake,'. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 18: 1–492, pls. 10–40.
• Dall, W.H. 1908. Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 43(6): 205–487, pls 1–22. BHL Reference page. 
• Hickman, C.S. & McLean, J.H. 1990: Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 35: i–vi, 1–169.
• Quinn, James F. Jr. 1991: New species of Gaza, Mirachelus, Calliotropis, and Echinogurges (Gastropoda:Trochidae) from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Nautilus 105: 166–172.
• Simone, L.R.L.; Cunha, C.M. 2006: Revision of genera Gaza and Callogaza (Vetigastropoda, Trochidae), with description of a new Brazilian species. Zootaxa, 1318: 1–40. Abstract & excerpt
• Thiele, J. 1929–1935: Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde, Translation by Bieler, R & Mikkelsen, P. 1992, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, The National Science Foundation, Washington D.C., 625 pp.
• Wenz, W. 1938: Gastropoda. Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Berlin, 6, 1–1639.

Links

• Gaza in the World Register of Marine Species

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