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Alvania punctura (Montagu, 1803)

141230  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141230)

accepted
Species
Alvania puncturata Locard, 1886 · unaccepted (unjustified emendation)
Turritella dorvilleana Leach, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine
(of Turbo punctura Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 320, pl. 12 fig. 5 [details]   
Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from Norway to the strait of Gibraltar, intertidal to ca. 100 m depth; rare and rather local in the...  
Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from Norway to the strait of Gibraltar, intertidal to ca. 100 m depth; rare and rather local in the Western Mediterranean in 50-200 m. Gorringe and Ampère seamounts, rare in 265-320 m.  [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania punctura (Montagu, 1803). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2024) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=141230 on 2024-03-19
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2024). European Register of Marine Species. Alvania punctura (Montagu, 1803). Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141230 on 2024-03-19
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original description  (of Turbo punctura Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 320, pl. 12 fig. 5 [details]   

original description  (of Alvania puncturata Locard, 1886) Locard, A. (1886). <i>Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins</i>. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012
page(s): 247 [details]   

original description  (of Rissoa punctura var. diversa Jeffreys, 1867) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 18 [details]   

original description  (of Turritella dorvilleana Leach, 1852) Leach, W. E. (1852). Molluscorum Britanniae Synopsis. A synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain arranged according to their natural affinities and anatomical structure. Van Voorst, London, viii + 376 pp. (edited posthumously by J. E. Gray). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13107076
page(s): 161 [details]   

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]   

additional source Gofas, S.; Warén A. (1982). Taxonomie de quelque espèces du genre <i>Alvania</i> (Mollusca, Gastropoda) des côtes ibériques et marocaines. <em>Bollettino Malacologico.</em> 18(1-4): 1-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49946527 [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Biology Type of larval development: planktotrophic [details]

Diagnosis Shell 1.8-2 mm high, moderately solid, with a large protoconch of 2.5 whorls and teleoconch of 2.5 whorls. Sculpture of protoconch of minute granules in spiral rows hardly visible through the optical microscope. Teleoconch sculpture of fine spiral cords, narrower than interspaces and delicate, somewhat flexuous axial ribs forming a fine lattice with the cords. Aperture with outer lip slightly thickened externally, smooth inside. Colour pale buff with a subsutural series of brown spots, and a larger brown spot towards the abapical part of outer lip. [details]

Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from Norway to the strait of Gibraltar, intertidal to ca. 100 m depth; rare and rather local in the Western Mediterranean in 50-200 m. Gorringe and Ampère seamounts, rare in 265-320 m.  [details]
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Dutch gevlekte traliedrijfhoren  [details]
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