WoRMS name details

Tornatina townsendi Melvill, 1898

To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntypes of Tornatina townsendi. Melvill, 1898. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 42 (4): 8 - catalog no. 107791)
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntypes of Tornatina townsendi. Melvill, 1898. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 42 (4): 8 - catalog no. 107791)

215336  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215336)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Tectipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Cephalaspidea (Order)
  9. Bulloidea (Superfamily)
  10. Tornatinidae (Family)
  11. Tornatina (Genus)
  12. Tornatina townsendi (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Melvill, J. C. (1898). Further investigations into the molluscan fauna of the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and the Gulf of Oman, with the descriptions of forty species. <em>Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society.</em> 42(4): 1-40, pls 1-2., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36322938
page(s): 8, pl. 1, fig. 20 [details] 
Type locality contained in Karachi Coast  
type locality contained in Karachi Coast [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tornatina townsendi Melvill, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215336 on 2025-04-29
Date
action
by
2001-12-09 09:59:46Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2013-09-25 00:57:47Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce
2023-10-17 08:53:41Z
changed
Herbert, David

Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License


Nomenclature

original description Melvill, J. C. (1898). Further investigations into the molluscan fauna of the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and the Gulf of Oman, with the descriptions of forty species. <em>Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society.</em> 42(4): 1-40, pls 1-2., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36322938
page(s): 8, pl. 1, fig. 20 [details] 

basis of record Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. <em>Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales.</em> 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntypes of Tornatina townsendi. Melvill, 1898. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 42 (4): 8 - catalog no. 107791) 
From editor or global species database
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntypes of Tornatina townsendi. Melvill, 1898. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 42 (4): 8 - catalog no. 107791)
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntypes of Tornatina townsendi. Melvill, 1898. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 42 (4): 8 - catalog no. 107791)
Hosted externally

WoRMS

Using WoRMS

Tools

Connect with us

This service is powered by LifeWatch Belgium
Learn more»
Website and databases developed and hosted by Flanders Marine Institute · Page generated on 2025-05-01 10:55:53+02:00 · Privacy and cookie policy