Abstract
Th is paper presents the fi rst published listing of the holdings of type specimens of mollusc in Th e Manchester Museum (University of Manchester, UK), the fourth largest mollusc collection in Britain. Type material relating to 480 taxa, including holotypes, paratypes and syntypes, are included in the present catalogue, mainly coming from the collections of A Abercrombie (India), RD Darbishire, Prof. AC Haddon (Torres Straits), Rev. J Hadfi eld (Lifu, Loyalty Islands), LJ Shackleford (especially Marginella), GC Spence (especially African land snails and Urocoptis and many specimens from M Connolly and HB Preston), FW Townsend (Persian Gulf ), syntype material from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) and that received from the Smithsonian Institution in 1973 in exchange. Th ere is undoubtedly more type material within the collection which is not identifi ed as such as yet.
Highlights
The Manchester Museum holds what is probably the fourth largest mollusc collection in Britain, with 166,000 lots
J Hadfield (Lifu, Loyalty Islands), LJ Shackleford, GC Spence, FW Townsend (Persian Gulf ), syntype material from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) and that received from the Smithsonian Institution in 1973 in exchange
Where an author clearly indicated an individual shell as a ‘type’ in the original description, such as by providing a museum accession number, this is taken to indicate the author’s intention to select a ‘holotype’
Summary
The Manchester Museum holds what is probably the fourth largest mollusc collection in Britain, with 166,000 lots (a previous count reported 80,000 lots and 400,000 specimens, see Hancock and Morgan 1980). This collection contains many type specimens, including holotypes, paratypes and syntypes. The bulk of JC Melvill’s collection is housed in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and there is type material in the Natural History Museum, London. Type material from American authors including WH Dall, HA Pilsbry and P Bartsch, is mainly to be found in the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC), American Museum of Natural History (New York) and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. It is very likely that there is additional type material in the collections which remains to be identified as such
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