WoRMS taxon details

Volvatella omega (Melvill, 1918)

494414  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:494414)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Tectipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Sacoglossa (Superorder)
  9. Oxynooidea (Superfamily)
  10. Volvatellidae (Family)
  11. Volvatella (Genus)
  12. Volvatella omega (Species)
accepted
Species
Oxynoe omega Melvill, 1918 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine
(of Oxynoe omega Melvill, 1918) 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): 155, pl. 5, fig. 29 [details] 
Type locality contained in Gulf of Oman  
type locality contained in Gulf of Oman [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Volvatella omega (Melvill, 1918). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=494414 on 2025-04-08
Date
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2010-08-12 08:59:24Z
created
Tran, Bastien
2011-04-11 21:31:49Z
checked
Bouchet, Philippe
2022-08-10 20:17:05Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce

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Nomenclature

original description (of Oxynoe omega Melvill, 1918) 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): 155, pl. 5, fig. 29 [details] 

basis of record Jensen, K.R. (2007). Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). <em>Bonner Zoologische Beiträge.</em> 55: 255–281., available online at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Bonner-Zoologische-Beitraege_55_0255-0281.pdf [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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