MolluscaBase name details
original description
Pallary, P. (1900). Coquilles marines du littoral du département d'Oran. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 48(3): 211-422., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25146965 page(s): 317; pl. 7 fig. 5 [details]
additional source
Marche-Marchad, I. (1960). Les Turritellidae de l'Afrique Occidentale (Gastropodes Prosobranches marins). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire sér. A.</em> 22(3): 855-884, 3 pl. page(s): 874 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature In itself, this taxon should be considered nomen nudum, as currently the only "description" found is the mention of a var. imbricata with the listing of M. varia in Pallary (1902:16). It is however clear that this taxon represents an infra-specific variation of M. mesal and is therefore considered synonymous in this instance.
Marche-Marchad (1960:874-875) treated M. varia as a synonym of M. mesal and a such recombined Pallary's variation name as Mesalia mesal var. imbricata duly figuring (Pl. III, fig. 25) a specimen from Pallary's collection preserved in NHMUK (Reg. No. 1915.1.265-20.949 fide Marche-Marchad, 1960). [details]
Type material No type material present in the Type Collection nor General Collection at NHMUK as per 02/05/2014. This does however not mean the material is lost, only that it is at present not available for research. [details]
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