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Type Specimens
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    [0] =>  Oliver, Salvi & Al-Kandari
    [1] => (Marrat
    [2] => (Strebel MS) Melvill & Standen
    [3] => (Thiele)
    [4] => [Baird, or Gray]
    [5] => [Benson] Sowerby
    [6] => [Hanley] Reeve
    [7] => Adams
    [8] => Adams & Angas
    [9] => Adams in-Montagu
    [10] => Adams, A. & Reeve
    [11] => Adams, H.
    [12] => Alder
    [13] => Alder & Hancock
    [14] => Alder in Forbes & Hanley
    [15] => Ancey
    [16] => Ancey & Sykes in Ancey
    [17] => Ancey in Bavay & Dautzenberg
    [18] => Ancey in Garrett
    [19] => Ancey in Pilsbry
    [20] => Ancey in Vignon
    [21] => Ancey in Westerlund
    [22] => Anderson
    [23] => Angas
    [24] => Anthony
    [25] => Arango
    [26] => Bartsch
    [27] => Bavay
    [28] => Bavay & Dautzenburg
    [29] => Bean
    [30] => Bean in Thorpe
    [31] => Beddome
    [32] => Benson
    [33] => Bernardi
    [34] => Biggs
    [35] => Boettger
    [36] => Bouchet & Warén
    [37] => Bourne
    [38] => Broderip
    [39] => Broderip in Broderip & Sowerby 1st
    [40] => Brown & Verdcourt
    [41] => Brown & Weil (de Boury mss.)
    [42] => Bullen
    [43] => Burch & Burch
    [44] => Burnup
    [45] => Carpenter
    [46] => Cate
    [47] => Caudwell, Jones & Killeen
    [48] => Caziot
    [49] => Chaper
    [50] => Chaster
    [51] => Chen, Linse, Copley & Rogers
    [52] => Chesney & Oliver
    [53] => Clapp
    [54] => Clench
    [55] => Clench & Aguayo
    [56] => Clench & Turner
    [57] => Clessin
    [58] => Clover
    [59] => Coles & Nekola
    [60] => Collier
    [61] => Connolly
    [62] => Cooper & Preston
    [63] => Craven
    [64] => Crosse
    [65] => Crosse & Fischer
    [66] => Crosse & Fisher
    [67] => Crowley
    [68] => Crowley & Pain
    [69] => Crowley, Pain & Woodward
    [70] => Dall
    [71] => Dance
    [72] => Dance, Moolenbeek & Dekker
    [73] => Dautzenberg
    [74] => de boury
    [75] => de Folin
    [76] => de Mattia & Neiber
    [77] => de Mattia, Neiber & Groh
    [78] => Dean
    [79] => Dekker & Goud
    [80] => Dekker, Moolenbeek & Dance
    [81] => Deschamps
    [82] => Dillwyn
    [83] => Drouet & Chaper
    [84] => Dunker
    [85] => Dupuis & Putzeys
    [86] => Eliot
    [87] => Engl
    [88] => F. G. Thompson & Dance
    [89] => Farran
    [90] => Forbes & Hanley
    [91] => Ford
    [92] => Fulton
    [93] => G. B. Sowerby I
    [94] => Gaskoin
    [95] => Gassies
    [96] => Germain
    [97] => Geyer
    [98] => Gittenberger
    [99] => Gittenberger & Boeters
    [100] => Gittenberger & Goud
    [101] => Glover & Taylor
    [102] => Gmelin
    [103] => Godwin-Austen
    [104] => Goodrich
    [105] => Gray
    [106] => Gray in Sowerby
    [107] => Gredler
    [108] => Gude
    [109] => Gyngell
    [110] => Haas
    [111] => Hanley
    [112] => Hanley & Theobald
    [113] => Hedley
    [114] => Hemphill in Binney
    [115] => Henderson
    [116] => Henderson & Daniels
    [117] => Henderson & Simpson
    [118] => Hervier
    [119] => Heude
    [120] => Heurde
    [121] => Higgins & Marrat
    [122] => Holyoak & Seddon
    [123] => Houart
    [124] => Hoyle
    [125] => Iredale
    [126] => Iredale in Melvill & Standen
    [127] => Issel
    [128] => J. S. Miller
    [129] => Jackson
    [130] => Jeffreys
    [131] => Jones & Preston
    [132] => Jordan
    [133] => Jordan 
    [134] => Kennard
    [135] => Kennard & Woodward
    [136] => Kiener
    [137] => Killeen & Oliver
    [138] => Killeen & Turner
    [139] => King
    [140] => Kobelt
    [141] => Lancaster
    [142] => Layard
    [143] => Layard in Kobelt
    [144] => Lea
    [145] => Linnaeus
    [146] => Lowe
    [147] => Marie
    [148] => Marrat
    [149] => Marshall
    [150] => Martyn
    [151] => Maynard
    [152] => Maynard & Clapp in Maynard
    [153] => Melvil
    [154] => Melvill
    [155] => Melvill & Ponsonby
    [156] => Melvill & Standen
    [157] => Melvill & Sykes
    [158] => Melvill in Tryon
    [159] => Möllendorff
    [160] => Montagu
    [161] => Monterosato
    [162] => Moolenbeek & Dance
    [163] => Moore
    [164] => Morelet
    [165] => Morelet & H. Drouët
    [166] => Moricand
    [167] => Morrison
    [168] => MĂĽller
    [169] => Neubert
    [170] => Nevill, G. & H.
    [171] => Newcomb
    [172] => Noronha
    [173] => Nuttall
    [174] => Oliver
    [175] => Oliver & Abou-Zeid
    [176] => Oliver & Chesney
    [177] => Oliver & Drewery
    [178] => Oliver & Glover
    [179] => Oliver & Holmes
    [180] => Oliver & Levin
    [181] => Oliver & Lutzen
    [182] => Oliver & Picken
    [183] => Oliver & Taylor
    [184] => Oliver & Vestheim
    [185] => Oliver & Zuschin
    [186] => Oliver, Rodrigues & Cunha
    [187] => Oliver, Salvi & Al-Kandari
    [188] => Pain
    [189] => Pain & Paul
    [190] => Pallary
    [191] => Pease
    [192] => Peuile
    [193] => Pfaffer, Rowson, Tattersfield & Neubert
    [194] => Pfeiffer
    [195] => Phillips
    [196] => Pilsbry
    [197] => Pilsbry & Ferriss
    [198] => Pilsbry & Henderson
    [199] => Pilsbry & Hinkley
    [200] => Pilsbry & Hirase
    [201] => Ponder
    [202] => Powell
    [203] => Preston
    [204] => Pulteney
    [205] => Putzeys
    [206] => Ramsden
    [207] => Reeve
    [208] => Reidel & Norris
    [209] => Rodrigues, Oliver & Cunha
    [210] => Rolle
    [211] => Rowson
    [212] => Rowson & Symondson
    [213] => Rowson & Tattersfield
    [214] => Rowson & Van Goethem
    [215] => Salisbury
    [216] => Schilder
    [217] => Schlesch
    [218] => Schwabe
    [219] => Seddon
    [220] => Seddon & Aparicio
    [221] => Seddon & Killeen
    [222] => Shackleford & Spence
    [223] => Smith
    [224] => Smith, E. A.
    [225] => Smythe & Oliver
    [226] => Sowerby
    [227] => Sowerby 1st
    [228] => Sowerby 2nd
    [229] => Sowerby 2nd in Reeve
    [230] => Sowerby 3rd
    [231] => Spence
    [232] => Sterki
    [233] => Strebel
    [234] => Stutchbury
    [235] => Swainson
    [236] => Swainson in Sowerby 1st
    [237] => Sykes
    [238] => T. Brown
    [239] => Tattersfield
    [240] => Tattersfield & Rowson
    [241] => Taylor
    [242] => Taylor & Glover
    [243] => Theobald
    [244] => Thiele
    [245] => Thompson
    [246] => Tiberi
    [247] => Tomlin
    [248] => Tomlin & Peile
    [249] => Tomlin & Shackleford
    [250] => Torre
    [251] => Torre & Bartsch
    [252] => Torre & Clench
    [253] => Torre & Ramsden in Ramsden
    [254] => Turton
    [255] => van Aartsen & Carrozza
    [256] => Verdcourt
    [257] => Vermeulen
    [258] => von Cosel
    [259] => Walker
    [260] => Watson
    [261] => Westerlund
    [262] => Wheeler
    [263] => Whitehead
    [264] => Williams
    [265] => Wollaston
    [266] => Woodward
    [267] => Wright
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Mitra (Strigatella) abacophora Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra (Strigatella) abacophora Melvill, 1888
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Xerophila abarriana Pallary, 1923
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Xerophila abarriana Pallary, 1923
Gastropoda : Helicoidea : Hygromiidae

Type Locality: Taza, sous les pierres, dans les endroit humides. [Taza, under stones, in a damp place.] [Morocco]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Bulimus abbreviatus Gassies, 1871
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Placostylus abbreviatus (Gassies, 1871)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Helicina : Bulimuloidea : Bulimulidae

Type Locality: Probablement le sud de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, car il n’y avait pas d’indication [New Caledonia (France)]

Holotype (possible)
Limicolaria abinsiensis Shackleford & Spence, 1916
Current name: Limicolaria abinsiensis Shackleford & Spence, 1916
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Achatinoidea : Achatinidae

Type Locality: Abinsi, Benue River, N. Nigeria [Nigeria]

Syntype(s)
Bittium abruptum Watson, 1880
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Metaxia abrupta Watson, 1880
Gastropoda : Triphoroidea : Triphoridae

Type Locality: Fayal, Azores. 450 - 500 fms.

Syntype(s) (possible) (lost)
Lacuna abyssicola Melvill & Standen, 1912
National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
Current name: Moelleriopsis poppei Engl, 2012
Gastropoda : Seguenziida : Seguenzioidea

Type Locality: Lat. 71Âş 22' S Long.16Âş 34' W., 1410 fathoms. Station 417

holotype
Nassa abyssinica Marrat, 1877
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Nassarius sinusigerus (A. Adams, 1852)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinoidea : Nassariidae

Type Locality: Abyssinia [Ethiopia]

Lectotype & Paralectotype(s)
Nassa abyssinica Marrat, 1877
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Nassarius sinusigerus Adams, 1852
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinoidea : Nassariidae

Type Locality:

Paralectotype(s)
Bulla achatina Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Achatina achatina Linnaeus, 1758
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Achatinoidea : Achatinidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Microtheca acidalia Melvill & Standen, 1899
Current name: Pseudoliotia acidalia Melvill & Standen, 1899
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Truncatelloidea : Tornidae

Type Locality: Torres Straits

Syntype(s)
Chondropoma (Chondropoma) glabratum acklinsense Bartsch, 1946
Current name: Chondropoma glabratum Reeve, 1863
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Annulariidae

Type Locality: Jamaica Bay [Acklin Island, Bahamas] [Bahamas]

Paratype(s)
Opisthostoma acolaston Vermeulen, 1994
Current name: Opisthostoma acolaston Vermeulen
Gastropoda : Architaenioglossa : Cyclophoroidea : Diplommatinidae

Type Locality: Limestone hill with primary forest and belukar, Nateh near Batu Tangga, approx. 18km E of Barabai, W. flank of Meratus Mts. Kalimantan-Selatan [Malaysia]

Paratype(s)
Menestho acuminata Preston, 1908
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Menestho acuminata Preston, 1908
Gastropoda : Pyramidelloidea : Pyramidellidae

Type Locality: Andamans

Syntype(s)
Pachydrobia spinosa var. acuminata Ancey, 1882
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Pachydrobia spinosa Poirier, 1881
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Truncatelloidea : Pomatiopsidae

Type Locality: Cambodge [Dr Harmand] [Cambodia]

Possible Syntype
Vitrella quenstedti var. acuta Geyer, 1904
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Bythiospeum acicula Held, 1838
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Truncatelloidea : Hydrobiidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible) (ex author) (lost)
Nassa acutangula Marrat, 1877
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Nassarius mendicus (Gould, 1850)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinoidea : Nassariidae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper.

Holotype
Turbo acutangulus Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Turbo acutangulus Linnaeus, 1758
Gastropoda : Trochida : Turbinelloidea : Turbinidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Limneus acutus Jeffreys, 1830
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Current name: Radix balthica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gastropoda : Hygrophila : Lymnaeoidea : Lymnaeidae

Type Locality: Plentifully in a large pool on Crymlyn Burrows, [Swansea] [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Eulima adamantina de Folin, 1867
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Melanella adamantina de Folin, 1867
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Eulimoidea : Eulimidae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper [Panama]

Syntype(s)
Nassa adamsiana Marrat, 1880
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Nassarius albescens Dunker, 1846
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinoidea : Nassariidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s)
Conus adamsonii Broderip, 1836
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Conus adamsonii Broderip, 1836
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Conoidea : Conidae

Type Locality: No locality given in paper

Holotype
Cerithiopsis adelpha Melvill & Standen, 1896
Current name: Cerithiopsis adelpha Melvill & Standen, 1896
Gastropoda : Triphoroidea : Cerithiopsidae

Type Locality: [New Caledonia]

Syntype(s)
Pedipes affinis var. adenensis Ancey, 1887
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Pedipes affinis var. adenensis Ancey, 1887
Gastropoda : Ellobiida : Ellobioidea : Ellobiidae

Type Locality: Aden [Yemen]

Possible Syntype
Subuliniscus adjacens Connolly, 1923
Current name: Subuliniscus adjacens Connolly, 1923
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Achatinoidea : Subulinidae

Type Locality: Kenya, Larogi Hills [Kenya]

Syntype(s)
Ledoulxia adjacens Preston, 1914
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Trochonanina levistriata (Preston, 1913)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Helicina : Helicarionoidea : Urocyclidae

Type Locality: Martensia [then under that a note in ink which says] Martensia [then label resumes in pencil] adjacens Preston Co - types Mt. Kenango Aberdare Range British East Africa [pencil annotation] 621

Syntype(s)
Planispira admirabilis Smith, 1986
Current name: Planispira admirabilis E. A. Smith, 1896
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Camaenidae

Type Locality: Jampea Island

Syntype(s)
Melania (Sermyla) admirabilis Smith, 1880
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Melanoides admirabilis Smith, 1880
Gastropoda : Cerithiopsoidea : Thiaridae

Type Locality: Central Africa

Syntype(s) (possible) (lost)
Helix (Geotrochus) adonis Angas, 1870
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Current name: Papuina adonis (Angas, 1870)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Helicoidea : Camaenidae

Type Locality: Bougainville Island, Solomon Group (Brazier). [Solomon Islands]

Syntype(s)
Murex adversus Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Marshallora adversa (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Triphoroidea : Triphoridae

Type Locality: No locality given for shells from Mr Boys. Cornish and Devonshire coasts [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Scissurella aedonia Watson, 1886
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Anatoma aedonia (Watson, 1886)
Gastropoda : Archaeogastropoda : Pleurotomarioidea : Scissurellidae

Type Locality: Challenger, st 122 [Brazil]

Lectotype
Scissurella aedonia Watson, 1886
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Anatoma aedonia (R. B. Watson, 1886)
Gastropoda : Lepetellida : Scissurelloidea : Anatomidae

Type Locality: [accession register entry] St. 122. Sep. 10 / 73. Off Pernambuca. 350 fms. Dry. Ex "Challenger" Coll. G42

Syntype(s) (possible) (lost)
Trochus (Margarita) aeglees Watson, 1879
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Calliotropis aeglees Watson, 1879
Gastropoda : Seguenziida : Seguenzioidea : Eucyclidae

Type Locality: [accession register entry] St. 24. Mar 25 / 73. Off Culebra I., W. Indies. 390 fms. Dry. Ex "Challenger" Coll. G38

Syntype(s) (possible) (lost)
Bittium aeolomitres Melvill & Standen, 1896
Current name: Horologica eolomitres (Melvill & Standen, 1896)
Gastropoda : Triphoroidea : Cerithiopsidae

Type Locality: Loyalty Islands (from the title) [New Caledonia]

Syntype(s) (figured)
Mitra aerumnosa Melvill, 1888
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Mitra aerumnosa Melvill, 1888
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricoidea : Mitridae

Type Locality: Algoa Bay, South Africa [Republic of South Africa]

Lectotype
Nassa aethiopica Marrat, 1873
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Nassarius aethiopicus Marrat, 1873
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinoidea : Nassariidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (missing)
Voluta aethiopica Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Melo aethiopicus Linnaeus, 1758
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Volutoidea : Volutidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Buliminus affinis Preston, 1910
Current name: Gittenedouardia subeminula (Bourguignat, 1883)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Enidae

Type Locality: Harar, Southern Abyssinia

Syntype(s) (possible)
Oliva affinis Marrat, 1871
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Olivella semistriata (J. E. Gray, 1839)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Olivoidea : Olividae

Type Locality: Acapulco [Mexico]

Syntype(s) (figured) (possible)
Trivia affinis Marrat, 1867
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Purpurcapsula corinneae Shaw, 1909
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cypraeoidea : Triviidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (missing)
Machrochisma africana Tomlin, 1932
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Macroschisma africana (Tomlin, 1932)
Gastropoda : Archaeogastropoda : Fissurelloidea : Fissurellidae

Type Locality: Port Alfred [Republic of South Africa]

Lectotype
Megatebennus africanus Tomlin, 1926
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Cosmetalepas africana (Tomlin, 1926)
Gastropoda : Archaeogastropoda : Fissurelloidea : Fissurellidae

Type Locality: Port Alfred [Republic of South Africa]

Holotype
Minolia agapeta Melvill & Standen, 1896
Current name: Parminolia apicina (Gould, 1861)
Gastropoda : Trochida : Trochoidea : Trochidae

Type Locality: Loyalty Islands (from the title) [New Caledonia]

Syntype(s) (figured)
Mangilia agna Melvill & Standen, 1896
Current name: Pseudorhaphitoma agna (Melvill & Standen, 1896)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Conoidea : Mangeliidae

Type Locality: Loyalty Islands (from the title) [New Caledonia]

Syntype(s) (figured)
Helicophanta alayeriana Ancey, 1902
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Helicophanta gloriosa (Pfeiffer, 1856)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Rhytidoidea : Acavidae

Type Locality: Bora Country, S. Madagascar [Madagascar]

Syntype
Oliva alba Marrat, 1871
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Olivella alba (Marrat, 1871)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Olivoidea : Olividae

Type Locality: Guatemala [Guatemala]

Syntype(s) (figured) (possible)
Physa alba Turton, 1826
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery
Current name: Physa fontinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gastropoda : Lymnaeoidea : Physidae

Type Locality: Towyn, North Wales [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Opeas albaniense Connolly, 1919
Current name: Opeas albaniense Connolly, 1919
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Achatinoidea : Achatinidae

Type Locality: Cape Province, Alicedale [locality of author's 'type', vide Connolly 1939: 352]; Grahamstown.

Paratype(s)
Nerita albicilla Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Nerita albicilla Linnaeus, 1758
Gastropoda : Cycloneritida : Neritoidea : Neritidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Strophiops albicostata Maynard, 1924
Leeds Museums and Galleries
Current name: Cerion albicostata Maynard, 1924
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Orthalicoidea : Cerionidae

Type Locality: Long Key, Southeast of Highburn Key, Bahamas [Bahamas]

Paralectotype(s)
Bittium albocinctum Melvill & Standen, 1896
Current name: Joculator albocinctum (Melvill & Standen, 1896)
Gastropoda : Triphoroidea : Cerithiopsidae

Type Locality: Loyalty Islands (from the title) [New Caledonia]

Syntype(s) (figured)
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