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The American brackish-water mussel Mytella strigata is reported from Singapore for the first time. Transferable to other historically important natural history collections. Project were to strengthen and develop curatorial skills in specialist areas that could be Interpreting the molluscan type specimens in their collections. Given training focused on building confidence in recognising, researching, and The database and website continue to beĭeveloped and new entries can be made at any time. Have accessed the site from over 60 countries. Since the launch in March 2018, some 1,189 users

‘Mollusca Types in Great Britain’ website.

At the time of publication, data on over 1800 type lots are available on the Online resource connecting the Mollusca collections of National and other museums for Staff at seven partner museums in six UK cities. Museum Wales (AC-NMW) and The Natural History Museum, London (NHM) worked with Malacological curators from Amgueddfa Cymru - National The beginning of an integrated access and learning project bringing together curatorsįrom across the museum sector. This initiative, funded by the John Ellerman Foundation, is Type specimens are essential to the study of malacology and are distributed across a wide Establishing the valid names of these species is the first step towards more integrative studies including genetic and zoogeographical analyses. The type material of all related species are illustrated whenever possible. obliqua Spengler is provided as well type locality, repository and synonymy list. Field work, local collection survey and type material examination allow confirming two valid species: Solen (Ensisolen) tehuelchus Hanley (Solenidae) and Ensis macha (Molina) (Pharidae). However, ten nominal taxa, with uncertain taxonomic status, have been mentioned for the study area. According to the literature, there exist two species for the "Argentinean" and "Magellan" biogeographical provinces.

Additional specimens from different malacological collections were revised to update the geographical distribution of valid species. The specimens studied in this work were collected by scuba diving in the Gulf of San José, Argentina. In the present study, bivalves belonging to the superfamily Solenoidea that inhabit the Argentinean Sea are redescribed.