MolluscaBase name details
Alvania ascaris (W. Turton, 1819)
1392073 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1392073)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Alvania albella S. V. Wood, 1842 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Turbo ascaris W. Turton, 1819) Turton, W. (1819). <i>A conchological dictionary of the British Islands</i>. J. Booth, London, xxvii + 272 pp., 28 pls. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/29692 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Alvania ascaris (W. Turton, 1819). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1392073 on 2025-09-11
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
original description
(of Turbo ascaris W. Turton, 1819) Turton, W. (1819). <i>A conchological dictionary of the British Islands</i>. J. Booth, London, xxvii + 272 pp., 28 pls. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/29692 [details]
new combination reference Wood, S. V. (1848). A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper tertiaries of the east of England. Part 1. Univalves. <em>Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society of London.</em> 1: i-xii, 1–208, 1–21 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/67729
page(s): 99; note: Wood used Alvania in the sense of Aclis [details]
new combination reference Wood, S. V. (1848). A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper tertiaries of the east of England. Part 1. Univalves. <em>Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society of London.</em> 1: i-xii, 1–208, 1–21 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/67729
page(s): 99; note: Wood used Alvania in the sense of Aclis [details]
