Notes and Descriptions of New Deep-Water Mollusca Obtained by the Harvard-Habana Expedition off the Coast of Cuba II – Protologue of Babelomurex juliae (Restricted Archival Copy)

Digitized scans of the article Notes and Descriptions of New Deep-Water Mollusca Obtained by the Harvard-Habana Expedition off the Coast of Cuba. II by William J. Clench and Carlos G. Aguayo, originally published in Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural, Vol. XIII, No. 3, June 1939, pp. 189–197.

This paper is part of a series documenting mollusks collected during the Harvard–Havana Expedition (1938–1939), a collaborative effort between the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University) and the Universidad de La Habana. It includes original descriptions of several new species of deep-water gastropods and bivalves from the Western Atlantic.

Of particular note is the description of Latiaxis juliae Clench & Aguayo, 1939, now placed in the genus Babelomurex (Family: Muricidae, Subfamily: Coralliophilinae). The holotype was collected during the Hassler voyage (1871–1872) off Sandy Bay, Barbados, at 75–100 fathoms, and is deposited at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University), catalog no. 89,969. This species remains a key taxon for studies of Caribbean deep-water coralliophiline gastropods.

Contribution No. 224 of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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