WoRMS name details
Mitra (Pusia) geoffreyana Melvill, 1910
1392978 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1392978)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Mitra (Pusia) Swainson, 1840 accepted as Pusia Swainson, 1840
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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): 12, pl. 2, fig. 20. [details]
page(s): 12, pl. 2, fig. 20. [details]
Type locality contained in Persian Gulf
type locality contained in Persian Gulf [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mitra (Pusia) geoffreyana Melvill, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1392978 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
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): 12, pl. 2, fig. 20. [details]
page(s): 12, pl. 2, fig. 20. [details]
Other
additional source
Salisbury, R. A. & Gori, S. (2019). Six new Volutomitridae species from the Arabian seas and transfer of two Costellariidae species to Volutomitridae (Gastropoda: Volutomitridae). <em>Acta Conchyliorum.</em> 18: 103-124.
page(s): figs 4-5; note: lectotype and paralectotype illustrated [details]
page(s): figs 4-5; note: lectotype and paralectotype illustrated [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
