WoRMS name details
Trochus fultoni Melvill, 1898
723682 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:723682)
accepted > unreplaced junior homonym
Species
Cantharidus fultoni (Melvill, 1898) · unaccepted
Trochus (Infundibulops) fultoni Melvill, 1898 · alternative representation
Trochus (Infundibulum) fultoni Melvill, 1898 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Trochus (Infundibulum) fultoni 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): 25, pl. 1, fig. 21. [details]
page(s): 25, pl. 1, fig. 21. [details]
Type locality contained in Gulf of Oman
type locality contained in Gulf of Oman [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Nomenclature Trochus fultoni Melvill, 1898, which is currently in use for a species from the Gulf of Oman is a junior homonym of Trochus...
Nomenclature Trochus fultoni Melvill, 1898, which is currently in use for a species from the Gulf of Oman is a junior homonym of Trochus fultoni G.B. Sowerby III, 1890, described from South Africa. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Trochus fultoni Melvill, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=723682 on 2025-05-16
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Nomenclature
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(of Trochus (Infundibulum) fultoni 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): 25, pl. 1, fig. 21. [details]
page(s): 25, pl. 1, fig. 21. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Trochus fultoni Melvill, 1898, which is currently in use for a species from the Gulf of Oman is a junior homonym of Trochus fultoni G.B. Sowerby III, 1890, described from South Africa. [details]
