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Acteocina 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)

715506  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:715506)

  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. Acteocina (Genus)
  12. Acteocina townsendi (Species)
accepted
Species
Tornatina townsendi Melvill, 1898 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine
(of Tornatina townsendi Melvill, 1898) 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 [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acteocina townsendi (Melvill, 1898). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=715506 on 2025-09-11
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2013-01-14 09:39:09Z
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Sartori, André F.
2013-09-25 00:57:47Z
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Marshall, Bruce

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original description (of Tornatina townsendi Melvill, 1898) 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] 
 
 Present  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 synonym Tornatina townsendi Melvill, 1898)
To Malacopics (Acteocina townsendi (Melvill, 1898)) 
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