WoRMS name details
Obtortio elongella Melvill, 1910
473651 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:473651)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
Obtortio Hedley, 1899 accepted as Finella A. Adams, 1860
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Melvill, J. C. (1910). Descriptions of twenty-nine species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, mostly collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 8, 6: 1-17., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18619242
page(s): 9, pl. 1, fig. 14. [details]
page(s): 9, pl. 1, fig. 14. [details]
Type locality contained in Gulf of Oman
, Note off Charbar [Chabahar], Mekran [Makran] Coast
type locality contained in Gulf of Oman [details]
Type locality off Charbar [Chabahar], Mekran [Makran] Coast [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Obtortio elongella Melvill, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=473651 on 2025-05-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Melvill, J. C. (1910). Descriptions of twenty-nine species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, mostly collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 8, 6: 1-17., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18619242
page(s): 9, pl. 1, fig. 14. [details]
page(s): 9, pl. 1, fig. 14. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hasegawa K., 1998. A review of recent Japanese species previously assigned to <i>Eufenella</i> and <i>Clathrofenella</i> (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cerithioidea). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 31: 165-186., available online at http://ci.nii.ac.jp/lognavi?name=nels&lang=en&type=pdf&id=ART0006482027 [details]





From editor or global species database
Type locality off Charbar [Chabahar], Mekran [Makran] Coast [details]