African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cymbium melo ([Lightfoot], 1786)

WoRMS name details

Cymbium melo ([Lightfoot], 1786)

AphiaID

215096 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215096)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Melo melo ([Lightfoot], 1786)

Rank

Species

Parent

Cymbium Röding, 1798

Original name

Voluta melo [Lightfoot], 1786

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Voluta melo [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 3 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cymbium melo ([Lightfoot], 1786). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215096 on 2025-05-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-11-24 14:09:49Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2011-09-26 23:58:09Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Voluta melo [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 3 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Authority Manuscript name of Solander. [details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)