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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Rissooidea: Rissoinae

Rissoa parva (da Costa, 1778)
Not found in the Western Atlantic


Maximum Reported Size: 3.5  mm

Synonymy

Turbo parvus da Costa, 1778
Rissoa edgariana Melvill & Standen, 1907
Ovirissoa edgariana (Melvill & Standen, 1907) 

Details


Turbo parvus da Costa, 1778,
[Basis of the current name]

Rissoa edgariana Melvill & Standen, 1907, p. 132-133, fig. 4
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Scotia Bay, South Orkneys [in error]
Maximum Reported Size: 3.5 mm
References: Melvill & Standen (1907) M; Carcelles (1953); Ponder (1983d) s
Comments: Mislocalized specimen of Rissoa parva, Eastern Atlantic.
Combining Genera:  Ovirissoa


Partial List of References

Melvill, J. C. and R. Standen. 1907. The marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 46 119-157, 1 pl. [Stated date: 21 Dec 1907.]

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