WoRMS taxon details
Merelina gracilis (Angas, 1877)
578469 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:578469)
accepted
Species
Alvania gracilis Angas, 1877 · unaccepted (original combination)
Rissoia devecta Tate, 1899 · unaccepted (Unnecessary replacement name for...)
Unnecessary replacement name for Alvania gracilis Angas, not a homonym of Rissoa gracilis MacGillivray, 1843
marine
(of Alvania gracilis Angas, 1877) Angas, G.F. (1877). Description of one genus and twenty-five species of marine shells from New South Wales. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 171-177, pl. 26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28510759
page(s): 174; plate XXVI, fig. 16 [details]
page(s): 174; plate XXVI, fig. 16 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Merelina gracilis (Angas, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578469 on 2025-05-04
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Alvania gracilis Angas, 1877) Angas, G.F. (1877). Description of one genus and twenty-five species of marine shells from New South Wales. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 171-177, pl. 26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28510759
page(s): 174; plate XXVI, fig. 16 [details]
original description (of Rissoia devecta Tate, 1899) Tate, R. (1899). Contribution to a revision of the Recent Rissoidae of Australia. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 23(2): 230-244., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16121048
page(s): 235 [details]
basis of record Criscione, F.; Ponder, W. F. (2011). A review of the Recent Australian species of Merelina Iredale, 1915 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae). <em>Molluscan Research.</em> 31(2): 65-84., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/mr.31.2.1 [details]
page(s): 174; plate XXVI, fig. 16 [details]
original description (of Rissoia devecta Tate, 1899) Tate, R. (1899). Contribution to a revision of the Recent Rissoidae of Australia. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 23(2): 230-244., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16121048
page(s): 235 [details]
basis of record Criscione, F.; Ponder, W. F. (2011). A review of the Recent Australian species of Merelina Iredale, 1915 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae). <em>Molluscan Research.</em> 31(2): 65-84., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/mr.31.2.1 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
