WoRMS taxon details
Circulus gyalum (Melvill, 1904)
1591722 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1591722)
accepted
Species
Cyclostrema gyalum Melvill, 1904 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cyclostrema gyalum Melvill, 1904) Melvill, J. C. (1904). Descriptions of twenty-three species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, in 1903. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 6(1): 51-60, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15176164
page(s): 54, pl. 5, fig. 22. [details]
page(s): 54, pl. 5, fig. 22. [details]
Type locality contained in Gulf of Oman
type locality contained in Gulf of Oman [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Circulus gyalum (Melvill, 1904). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1591722 on 2025-04-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cyclostrema gyalum Melvill, 1904) Melvill, J. C. (1904). Descriptions of twenty-three species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, in 1903. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 6(1): 51-60, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15176164
page(s): 54, pl. 5, fig. 22. [details]
basis of record Rubio, F. & Rolán, E. (2022). <i>New species of Vitrinellidae (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea) from the Indo-Pacific. The genus </i>Circulus<i> Jeffreys, 1865</i>. Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Santiago de Compostela. 422 pp. , available online at https://zenodo.org/records/8423155
page(s): 352, fig. P1 [details]
page(s): 54, pl. 5, fig. 22. [details]
basis of record Rubio, F. & Rolán, E. (2022). <i>New species of Vitrinellidae (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea) from the Indo-Pacific. The genus </i>Circulus<i> Jeffreys, 1865</i>. Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Santiago de Compostela. 422 pp. , available online at https://zenodo.org/records/8423155
page(s): 352, fig. P1 [details]
Other
subsequent type designation
Mienis, H. K. (1993). On the presence of "<i>Cyclostrema</i>" <i>gyalum</i> Melvill, in the deep waters of the Gulf of Aqaba, with a note on its systematic position (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Vitrinellidae). <em>Levantina.</em> 77-79: 17-19. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Cyclostrema gyalum Melvill, 1904)
To NHMUK collection (Cyclostrema gyalum Melvill, 1904; LECTOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2491966) (from synonym Cyclostrema gyalum Melvill, 1904)
To NHMUK collection (Cyclostrema gyalum Melvill, 1904; LECTOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2491966) (from synonym Cyclostrema gyalum Melvill, 1904)
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
