Turbellaria --- Distribution records

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Collecting site

West Fire Island (Fire Island, West Island), New York, USA
Sand bar
latitude: 40.656391    
longitude: -73.199173    

Precision of location: Alexandria Digital Library (with USGS GNIS data)
Site Named Here: By name of island, bay, strait, lake, river, or stream, etc., named in source publication




Collected here:

Probursa venerisSep 4, 1940sandcollected by Dr. Marvin Meyer, on western end of Fire Island. 'Habitually found in empty shells of the clam Venus, whence the specific name.'