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Conus marchionatus var. eudoxus Melvill in Tryon, 1883
Gastropoda : Conoidea : Conidae| Current Name: | Conus marchionatus Hinds, 1843 [WoRMS: 428202] |
| Type Status: | Holotype |
| Collection: | Melvill-Tomlin |
| Accession No.: | NMW.1955.158.01179 |
| Preparations: | Dry shells |
| No. of Specimens: | 1 sh |
| Locality: | No locality. |
| Collecting Details: | (ex.Coll.) J. C. Melvill |
References
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| Kohn, A. J. Catalogue of recent and fossil Conus. The Conus biodiversity website. Available online at http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/index.php. | Figured | |
| Tryon, G. W. 1883-1884. Conidae, Pleurotomidae. (1)6: 21-24. Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systematic. With illustrations of the species. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 1-413pp; pls 1-31 (Conidae); pls 1-34 (Pleurotomidae) [10 & 148; pl. 27, fig. 3] | Cited Figured Original Description Type Designation |
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Detailed Locality
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| Label: No locality given. Melvill in Tryon, 1883: No locality given. |
| Point Locality: | No locality. |
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| Ex. Collection: | J. C. Melvill |
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Classification
Kingdom |
Phylum |
Class |
Order |
Superfamily |
Family |
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| Animalia | Mollusca | Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia |
Neogastropoda | Conoidea | Conidae |
Remarks
Tryon (1883) lists the type locality of the species marchionatus as Marquesas Islands but does not indicate where Melvill’s variety eudoxus is from. He comments on the variety: “Mr Melville, of Prestwich, near Manchester, England, who posses a remarkable collection of Cones, has sent me a coloured drawing of a gigantic specimen in his collection, 2025 inches in length; he proposes to call it var. eudoxus.”
Record last modified - 27/06/2018