WoRMS taxon details
Alvania colossophilus Oberling, 1970
141172 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141172)
accepted
Species
Alvania karpathoensis F. Nordsieck, 1972 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine
Oberling, J.-J. (1970). Quelques espèces nouvelles de Gastropodes du bassin Méditerranéen. <em>Naturhistorisches Museum Bern. Kleine Mitteilungen.</em> 1: 1-7.
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Note Phaliraki, Rhodes
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Type locality Phaliraki, Rhodes [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Alvania colossophilus Oberling, 1970. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141172 on 2025-08-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Oberling, J.-J. (1970). Quelques espèces nouvelles de Gastropodes du bassin Méditerranéen. <em>Naturhistorisches Museum Bern. Kleine Mitteilungen.</em> 1: 1-7.
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original description (of Alvania karpathoensis F. Nordsieck, 1972) Nordsieck, F. (1972). <i>Die europäischen Meeresschnecken (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae; Rissoacea). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer</i>. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart. XIII + 327 pp. [details]
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original description (of Alvania karpathoensis F. Nordsieck, 1972) Nordsieck, F. (1972). <i>Die europäischen Meeresschnecken (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae; Rissoacea). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer</i>. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart. XIII + 327 pp. [details]
Other
additional source
Bitlis B. & Öztürk B. (2017). The genus <i>Alvania</i> (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) along the Turkish Aegean coast with the description of a new species. <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 81(3): 395-411. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04566.14A [details]





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Spelling Alvania colossophila in ERMS 1.0 [details]Type locality Phaliraki, Rhodes [details]
To Malacopics (Alvania colossophilus Oberling, 1970 Greece, Notio Aigaio, Dodekanisos, Karpathos, Afiartis, beached in shell grit, collected July 1994, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To Malacopics (Alvania colossophilus Oberling,1970 Greece, Notio Aigaio, Dodekanisos, Astypalea Island, at 6 m depth, collected June 1997, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Alvania karpathoensis F. Nordsieck, 1972)
To Malacopics (Alvania colossophilus Oberling,1970 Greece, Notio Aigaio, Dodekanisos, Astypalea Island, at 6 m depth, collected June 1997, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Alvania karpathoensis F. Nordsieck, 1972)