WoRMS name details
Fossarus eutorniscus Melvill, 1918
746080 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:746080)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Parviturbo dibellai Buzzurro & Cecalupo, 2007 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Melvill, J. C. (1918). Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 9, 1: 137-158, pls 4-5., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16002757
page(s): 148, pl. 5, fig. 21. [details]
page(s): 148, pl. 5, fig. 21. [details]
Type locality contained in Karachi Coast
type locality contained in Karachi Coast [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Fossarus eutorniscus Melvill, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=746080 on 2025-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
Melvill, J. C. (1918). Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 9, 1: 137-158, pls 4-5., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16002757
page(s): 148, pl. 5, fig. 21. [details]
page(s): 148, pl. 5, fig. 21. [details]
Other
additional source
Rubio F., Rolán E. & Fernández-Garcés R. (2015). Revision of the genera <i>Parviturbo</i> and <i>Pseudorbis</i> (Gastropoda, Skeneidae). <em>Iberus.</em> 33(2): 167-259., available online at https://www.zenodo.org/record/4586816
note: concludes that this is a species of Vitrinellidae, but maintain the combination in Fossarus because they do not know in which vitrinellid genus it should be placed [details]
note: concludes that this is a species of Vitrinellidae, but maintain the combination in Fossarus because they do not know in which vitrinellid genus it should be placed [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
