Collecting site
West Fire Island (Fire Island, West Island), New York, USA
Sand bar
latitude: 40.656391 40°39'23.01"N
longitude: -73.199173 73°11'57.02"W
[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 veneris Hyman, 1944 | Sep 4, 1940 | | sand | collected by Dr. Marvin Meyer, on western end of Fire Island. 'Habitually found in empty shells of the clam Venus, whence the specific name.' |