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Alvania Cancellata (Da Costa, 1778) Alvania cancellata (da Costa, 1778) AphiaID: 141165 . Animalia (Reino) > Mollusca (Filo) > Gastropoda (Classe) > Caenogastropoda (Subclasse) > Littorinimorpha (Ordem) > Rissooidea (Superfamilia) > Rissoidae (Familia) Natural History Museum Rotterdam Serge Gofas Facilmente confundível com: Alvania beanii . 1 Sinónimos Acinopsis cancellata (da Costa, 1778) Acinopsis cancellina (Locard, 1892) Acinopsis venter Nordsieck, 1972 Alvania cancellina Locard, 1891 Alvania laxa Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1896 Alvania paupercula (Jeffreys, 1867) Rissoa (Alvania) laxa (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896) Rissoa cancellata (da Costa, 1778) Rissoa cancellata var. paupercula Jeffreys, 1867 Rissoa crenulata Michaud, 1830 Turbo cancellatus da Costa, 1778 Referências 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. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213. [details] additional source Ávila, S.P.; Cardigos, F.; Santos, R.S. (2004). D. João de Castro Bank, a shallow water hydrothermal-vent in the Azores: checklist of marine Molluscs. Arquipélago (Ciénc. Biol. Mar./Life Mar. Sci.) 21A: 75-80 [details] original description da Costa E. M. (1778). Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae, or, The British Conchology. London: Millan, White, Elmsley & Robson. xii + 254 + viii pp. 17 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47268#page/7/mode/1up [details] original description Da Costa, Mendes E. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. – Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d’histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l’Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois., i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson)., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47268#page/7/mode/1up [details] original description Da Costa, Mendes E. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. – Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d’histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l’Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois., i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783 [details] 2 Última atualização: 29 Out. 2018 3.
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