WoRMS name details
Rissoa townsendi Melvill, 1910
882522 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:882522)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Rissoa (Apicularia) townsendi Melvill, 1910) Melvill, J. C. (1910). Descriptions of twenty-nine species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, mostly collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 8, 6: 1-17., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18619242
page(s): 7, pl. 1, fig. 11 [details]
page(s): 7, pl. 1, fig. 11 [details]
Taxonomy Originally described as Rissoa (Apicularia) t.
Taxonomy Originally described as Rissoa (Apicularia) t. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Rissoa townsendi Melvill, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=882522 on 2025-05-16
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Rissoa (Apicularia) townsendi Melvill, 1910) Melvill, J. C. (1910). Descriptions of twenty-nine species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, mostly collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 8, 6: 1-17., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18619242
page(s): 7, pl. 1, fig. 11 [details]
page(s): 7, pl. 1, fig. 11 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Originally described as Rissoa (Apicularia) t. [details]
