WoRMS name details
Cythara elegantissima Melvill & Standen, 1903
1625895 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1625895)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1903). Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (7) 12: 289-324, pls 20-23., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29993047
page(s): 319, pl. 23, fig. 13. [details]
page(s): 319, pl. 23, fig. 13. [details]
Type locality contained in Gulf of Oman
type locality contained in Gulf of Oman [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cythara elegantissima Melvill & Standen, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1625895 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1903). Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (7) 12: 289-324, pls 20-23., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29993047
page(s): 319, pl. 23, fig. 13. [details]
page(s): 319, pl. 23, fig. 13. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Tucker J.K. (2004). Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 682: 1-1295., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1
page(s): 334. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 334. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
