MolluscaBase - Alectryon (Phrontis) alcimus Melvill, 1918

MolluscaBase name details

Alectryon (Phrontis) alcimus Melvill, 1918

AphiaID

1467919 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1467919)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (misspelling of genus)

Accepted Name

Alectrion (Phrontis) alcimus Melvill, 1918 accepted as Nassarius delicatus (A. Adams, 1852)

Rank

Species

Parent

Alectryon (Phrontis) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 accepted as Phrontis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Original name

Alectryon (Phrontis) alcimus Melvill, 1918

Environment

marine

Original description

Melvill, J. C. (1918). Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 9, 1: 137-158, pls 4-5., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16002757
page(s): 139, pl. 4, fig. 2. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Gulf of Oman

type locality contained in Gulf of Oman [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Alectryon (Phrontis) alcimus Melvill, 1918. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1467919 on 2025-04-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2020-11-19 14:22:01Z

created

Herbert, David

Licensing

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

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Documented distribution (1)

original description Melvill, J. C. (1918). Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 9, 1: 137-158, pls 4-5., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16002757
page(s): 139, pl. 4, fig. 2. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality