MolluscaBase - Melania (Acrostoma) hügeli var. compacta G. Nevill, 1885

MolluscaBase name details

Melania (Acrostoma) hügeli var. compacta G. Nevill, 1885

AphiaID

1475254 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1475254)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (of Melania compacta Anthony, 1854)

Accepted name

Paracrostoma huegelii (R. A. Philippi, 1843)

Rank

Variety

Parent

Melania (Acrostoma) hügeli [sic] accepted as Paracrostoma huegelii (R. A. Philippi, 1843)

Original name

Melania (Acrostoma) hügeli var. compacta G. Nevill, 1885

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Nevill, G. (1885). <i>Hand List of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta</i>. Part II. Gastropoda. Prosobranchia-Neurobranchia (contd.). x + 306 pp. Office of Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta. ["1884"; after 25 January 1885]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44691
page(s): 270-271 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in India

type locality contained in India (origin: native) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Melania (Acrostoma) hügeli var. compacta G. Nevill, 1885. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1475254 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2021-01-08 18:59:49Z

created

Auffenberg, Kurt

2024-03-24 09:29:30Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

Licensing

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

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Documented distribution (1)

original description Nevill, G. (1885). <i>Hand List of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta</i>. Part II. Gastropoda. Prosobranchia-Neurobranchia (contd.). x + 306 pp. Office of Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta. ["1884"; after 25 January 1885]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44691
page(s): 270-271 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality