WoRMS name details
Corbula alcocki Preston, 1907
538886 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:538886)
unaccepted
Species
brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Preston, H. B. (1907). Diagnoses of new species of <i>Corbula</i> and <i>Bithinella</i> from Lower Bengal. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7th series.</em> 19(111): 215-216. London. [1 March]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51228978
page(s): 215, fig. 2. [details]
page(s): 215, fig. 2. [details]
Type locality contained in West Bengal
, Note India, Lower Bengal, the Ganges Delta, Port...
type locality contained in West Bengal [details]
Type locality India, Lower Bengal, the Ganges Delta, Port Canning, in brackish pools [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Corbula alcocki Preston, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=538886 on 2025-05-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Preston, H. B. (1907). Diagnoses of new species of <i>Corbula</i> and <i>Bithinella</i> from Lower Bengal. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7th series.</em> 19(111): 215-216. London. [1 March]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51228978
page(s): 215, fig. 2. [details]
page(s): 215, fig. 2. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Oliver P.G., Hallan A., Jayachandran P., Joseph P., Sanu V. & Bijoy Nandan S. (2018). Taxonomy of myid bivalves from fragmented brackish-water habitats in India, with a description of a new genus <i>Indosphenia</i> (Myidae, Myoidea, Myidae). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 799: 21-46., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.799.25843
page(s): 31 [details]
source of synonymy Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 31 [details]
source of synonymy Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality India, Lower Bengal, the Ganges Delta, Port Canning, in brackish pools [details]
