Type Specimens | Mollusca Types in Great Britain
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] => Müller
    [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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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)
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)
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)
Patella apertura Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gastropoda : Lepetellida : Patelloidea : Patellidae

Type Locality: Falmouth, Salcombe [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Cardium arcuatum Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Lucinella divaricata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bivalvia : Imparidentia (Superorder) : Lucinoidea : Lucinidae

Type Locality: Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Murex attenuatus Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Mangelia attentuata (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Conoidea : Mangeliidae

Type Locality: Falmouth, Biddeford [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Mytilus avonensis Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionoidea : Unionidae

Type Locality: River Avon, Wiltshire [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Voluta bidentata Montagu, 1808
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Auriculinella bidentata (Montagu, 1808)
Gastropoda : Ellobiida : Ellobioidea : Ellobiidae

Type Locality: Dunbar [United Kingdom]

(Non-type material)
Eulima bilineata Alder, 1848
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Current name: Eulima bilineata Alder, 1848
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Vanikoroidea : Eulimidae

Type Locality: [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Mactra boysii Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Abra alba (Wood, 1802)
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea : Semelidae

Type Locality: Sandwich in Kent; Studland; Salcombe; Bideford [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Turbo bryereus Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Schwartziella bryerea (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Rissooidea : Zebinidae

Type Locality: "Weymouth" ? [United Kingdom]

Lectotype
Donax castaneus Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Ervilia castanea (Montagu, 1803)
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea : Semelidae

Type Locality: Falmouth in Cornwall, St Austel [United Kingdom]

Lectotype & Paralectotype(s)
Voluta catenata Montagu, 1803
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery
Current name: Gibberula catenata (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Volutoidea : Cytiscidae

Type Locality: Cornwall [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Mactra cinerea Montagu, 1808
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Mactra stultorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bivalvia : Imparidentia (Superorder) : Mactroidea : Mactridae

Type Locality: Weymouth [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Helix cingenda Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Theba pisana (Müller, 1774)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Helicoidea : Helicidae

Type Locality: Tenby [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Turbo cingillus Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Cingula trifasciata (Adams, 1800)
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Rissooidea : Rissoidae

Type Locality: Plymouth & Salcombe [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Odostomia conspicua Alder, 1850
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Current name: Megastomia conspicua (Alder, 1850)
Gastropoda : Pyramidelloidea : Pyramidellidae

Type Locality: “One specimen, dead, but tolerably fresh, was obtained from the first day’s dredging [Whitburn, Summer 1848]. I have since found a yound individual among some small shells dredged off Douglas, Isle of man, in June, 1848” [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Turbo crassior Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Lacuna crassior (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Littorinoidea : Littorinidae

Type Locality: Sandwich from Boys Biddeford Bay [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Pyramis crystallinus T. Brown, 1827
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery
Current name: Hyalea vitrea (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Truncatelloidea : Iravadiidae

Type Locality: Tenby, Wales [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Helix decussata Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Zebinella decussata (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Rissooidea : Rissoidae

Type Locality: Between "Weymouth and Portland" ? [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Turbo decussatus Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Parthenina decussata (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Trochida : Pyramidelloidea : Pyramidellidae

Type Locality: Salcombe [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Voluta denticulata Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Myosotella denticulata (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Ellobiida : Ellobioidea : Ellobiidae

Type Locality: Favertsham (from Boys), Plymouth, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe Aberavoy and Southampton [United Kingdom]

Lectotype & Paralectotype(s)
Bulla diaphana Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Trivia arctica (Pulteney, 1799)
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Velutinoidea : Triviidae

Type Locality: Salcombe Bay: Falmouth [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Mytilus discrepans Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Musculus discors (Linnaeus, 1767)
Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytiloidea : Mytilidae

Type Locality: Southampton mouth of Itchin; Ilfracombe and south coast of Wales. [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Chiton discrepans T. Brown, 1827
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery
Current name: Acanthochitona discrepans (T. Brown, 1827)
Polyplacophora : Chitonida : Cryptoplacoidea : Acanthochitonidae

Type Locality: Tenby, Wales [United Kingdom]

Lectotype & Palalectotypes
Turbo dispar Montagu, 1816
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Unresolved littorinid
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Littorinoidea : Littorinidae

Type Locality: Poole [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Mya distorta Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Thracia distorta (Montagu, 1803)
Bivalvia : Anomalodesmata (Superorder) : Thracioidea : Thraciidae

Type Locality: Falmouth and Plymouth [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Trochus electissimus Bean in Thorpe, 1844
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Current name: Steromphala cineraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gastropoda : Trochida : Trochoidea : Trochidae

Type Locality: Unknown [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Turbo elegantissimus Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Turbonilla lactea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gastropoda : Pyramidelloidea : Pyramidellidae

Type Locality: Sandwich from Boys: Falmouth, Salcombe and Ilfracombe [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Cardium elongatum Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bivalvia : Cardioidea : Cardiidae

Type Locality: Salcombe Bay [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Cypraea europaea Montagu, 1808
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Trivia monacha (Costa, 1778)
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Velutinoidea : Triviidae

Type Locality: Salcombe Bay [United Kingdom]

Lectotype & Paralectotype(s)
Helix excavatus Alder, 1831
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Current name: Zonitoides excavatus (Alder, 1831)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Gastrodontoidea : Gastrodontidae

Type Locality: Under decayed wood, and timber that has lain awhile on the ground; rare. Stella Dean and Gibside Wood. [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Helix excavatus Alder, 1831
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Current name: Zonitoides excavatus (Alder, 1831)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Gastrodontoidea : Gastrodontidae

Type Locality: Under decayed wood, and timber that has lain awhile on the ground; rare. Stella Dean and Gibside Wood. [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Tellina flexuosa Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Thyasira flexuosa (Montagu, 1803)
Bivalvia : Imparidentia (Superorder) : Thyasiroidea : Thyasiridae

Type Locality: Falmouth Harbour [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Helix goodallii J. S. Miller, 1822
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery
Current name: Opeas hannense (Rang, 1831)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Achatinoidea : Achatinidae

Type Locality: Pineries (pineapple cultivation beds), Bristol [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Murex gracilis Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Comarmondia gracilis (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Conoidea : Clathurellidae

Type Locality: Biddeford Bay [United Kingdom]

Lectotype
Chiton gracilis Jeffreys, 1859
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Current name: Acanthochitona discrepans (Brown, 1827)
Polyplacophora : Acanthochitonidae

Type Locality: “several specimens” “Mr. Damon (…) dredged in deep water at Weymouth” “Mr. Metcalfe (…) same locality” and “Mr. M’Andrew (…) dredging off Milford Haven” [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Bulla haliotoidea Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Lamellaria perspicua (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Velutinoidea : Velutinidae

Type Locality: Salcombe Bay [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Voluta hyalina Montagu, 1808
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Minioliva perplexa Olsson, 1956
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinoidea : Columbellidae

Type Locality: Dunbar in cabinet of Laskey [United Kingdom]

(Non-type material)
Turbo interstinctus Adams in-Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Parthenina interstincta (Mont., 1803)
Gastropoda : Pyramidelloidea : Pyramidellidae

Type Locality: Bigberry Bay [United Kingdom]

Neotype
Helix labiosa Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Rissoa membranacaea (Adams, 1800)
Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Rissooidea : Rissoidae

Type Locality: Falmouth, Devonshire, Biddeford, South Wales [United Kingdom]

Lectotype & Paralectotype(s)
Helix lackhamensis Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Ena montana (Draparnaud, 1801)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Enoidea : Enidae

Type Locality: Lackham in Wiltshire [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Nautilus lacustris Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Segmentina nitida (Müller, 1774)
Gastropoda : Hygrophila : Planorboidea : Planorbidae

Type Locality: Sandwich in Kent [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Turbo laminatus Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Cochlodina laminata (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Stylommatophora (clade) : Clausilioidea : Clausiliidae

Type Locality: Lackham Wood, Wiltshire and Bow Wood in Wiltshire [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Tellina laskeyi Montagu, 1808
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Gari sp
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea : (uncertain)

Type Locality: Firth of Forth? [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Murex linearis Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Raphitoma linearis (Montagu, 1803)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Conoidea : Raphitomidae

Type Locality: Falmouth and salcombe Bay [United Kingdom]

Unverified
Limnea lineata Bean, 1834
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Current name: Radix balthica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gastropoda : Hygrophila : Lymnaeoidea : Lymnaeidae

Type Locality: only one pond in our neighbourhood [...] at Scarborough [...] [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Helix lutea Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Radix balthica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gastropoda : Hygrophila : Lymnaeoidea : Lymnaeidae

Type Locality: Salcombe; South Devon [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Venus minima Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803)
Bivalvia : Venerida : Veneroidea : Veneridae

Type Locality: Falmouth [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Buccinum minimum Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Chavetia brunnea (Donovan, 1804)
Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinoidea : Buccinidae

Type Locality: Mouth of Aun (Avon), Salcombe, Torcross [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
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