Taxonavigation

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

Primary references

• Watson, B.A. 1879: [Mollusca of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ Expedition:] III Trochidae, viz. the genera Seguenzia, Basilissa, Gaza and Bembix. Journal of the Linnean Society, zoology, 14(78): 586–605. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02453.x BHL [first availability, see p. 601]

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. Commission steamer “Albatross” during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 43, 205–487.
• 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.