WoRMS name details
Eglisia elegans Melvill, 1909
524321 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:524321)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Melvill, J. C. (1909). Report on the marine Mollusca obtained by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., among the islands of the Indian Ocean in 1905. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> ser. 2, Zoology, 13(1): 65-138, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16398974
page(s): 84, pl. 5, fig. 7. [details]
page(s): 84, pl. 5, fig. 7. [details]
Type locality contained in Saya de Malha
type locality contained in Saya de Malha [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Eglisia elegans Melvill, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=524321 on 2025-05-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Melvill, J. C. (1909). Report on the marine Mollusca obtained by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., among the islands of the Indian Ocean in 1905. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> ser. 2, Zoology, 13(1): 65-138, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16398974
page(s): 84, pl. 5, fig. 7. [details]
page(s): 84, pl. 5, fig. 7. [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Brown L.G. & Neville B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3907(1): 1-188., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3907.1.1
page(s): 67 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 67 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
