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Mitra xerampelina Melvill, 1895
Gastropoda : Muricoidea : CostellariidaeCurrent Name: | Vexillum (Protoelongata) xerampelina (Melvill, 1895) Herrmann, M., Stossier, G. & Salisbury, R. 2014 |
Type Status: | Holotype |
Collection: | Melvill-Tomlin |
Accession No.: | NMW.1955.158.00429 |
Preparations: | Dry shells |
No. of Specimens: | 1 |
Locality: | Aden, Yemen, Arabian Sea. |
Collecting Details: | (ex.Coll.) E. R. Shopland; J. C. Melvill |
References
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Melvill, J. C. 1895. Descriptions of new species of Pleurotoma, Mitra and Latirus. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1(5): 221-223; pl. 14. [223; pl. 14, fig. 5] | Cited Figured Original Description Type Designation |
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Trew, A. 1987. James Cosmo Melvill's New Molluscan Names. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. 1-84pp [71] | Cited | |
Turner, H. 1989. Uncommon and New Mitriform Gastropods from the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape. CH-8903 Birmensdorf. 1-35pp; pls.1-8 [pl. 8, fig. 15] | Figured | ![]() request |
Turner, H. 2001. Katalog der familie Costellariidae Macdonald 1860 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricoidea). Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 1-100pp [68] | ||
Herrmann, M., Stossier, G. & Salisbury, R. 2014. A new subgenus including three new species of the genus Vexillum (Gastropoda: Costellariidae) from the central Indo-Pacific with remarks on Vexillum (Pusia) semicostatum (Anton, 1838). Contributions to Natural History . 24: 1-55; pls 1-19. [17; pl. 1, fig.3; pl. 12, fig. 40] | Cited Figured Current Name |
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Detailed Locality
Verbatim Locality |
Label: Aden. Melvill, 1895: Aden. |
Point Locality: | Aden, |
Country: | Yemen |
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Sea Region: | Arabian Sea. |
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Ex. Collection: | E. R. Shopland; J. C. Melvill |
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Classification
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Phylum |
Class |
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Family |
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Animalia | Mollusca | Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia |
Neogastropoda | Muricoidea | Costellariidae |
Remarks
Melvill, 1895: “In the type specimen, now in my collection, the epidermis is still adherent to the interstices of the last whorl, between the ribs.”
Record last modified - 27/06/2018