MolluscaBase name details
Nassa (Hima) townsendi Melvill, 1897
561377 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:561377)
unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Nassa townsendi Dall, 1890; N. frederici is a replacement name)
Species
Nassa (Hima) [sic] accepted as Tritia Risso, 1826
marine
Melvill, J. C. (1897). Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine Mollusca from the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman. (Mostly collected by F. W. Townsend, Esq.). <em>Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Litterary and Philosophical Society.</em> 41(7): 1-25 , pls 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35462101
page(s): 4, pl. 6, fig. 1 [details]
page(s): 4, pl. 6, fig. 1 [details]
Type locality contained in Gulf of Oman
type locality contained in Gulf of Oman [details]
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Melvill, J. C. (1897). Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine Mollusca from the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman. (Mostly collected by F. W. Townsend, Esq.). <em>Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Litterary and Philosophical Society.</em> 41(7): 1-25 , pls 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35462101
page(s): 4, pl. 6, fig. 1 [details]
basis of record Cernohorsky, W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). <em>Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum.</em> 14: i-iv, 1-356. [published 12 July 1984]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59858109 [details]
page(s): 4, pl. 6, fig. 1 [details]
basis of record Cernohorsky, W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). <em>Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum.</em> 14: i-iv, 1-356. [published 12 July 1984]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59858109 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
