MolluscaBase taxon details
Retusa turrigera Melvill, 1910
1448993 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1448993)
accepted
Species
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): 16, pl. 2, fig. 28 [details]
page(s): 16, pl. 2, fig. 28 [details]
Type locality contained in Persian Gulf
type locality contained in Persian Gulf [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Retusa turrigera Melvill, 1910. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1448993 on 2025-09-11
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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): 16, pl. 2, fig. 28 [details]
basis of record Smythe K.R. (1979). The Tornatinidae and Retusidae of the Arabian Gulf. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 30: 93-98.
page(s): 94 [details]
page(s): 16, pl. 2, fig. 28 [details]
basis of record Smythe K.R. (1979). The Tornatinidae and Retusidae of the Arabian Gulf. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 30: 93-98.
page(s): 94 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
