African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Melongena Schumacher, 1817

AphiaID

205587 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205587)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon of

Melongenidae Gill, 1871 (1854)

Parent

Melongenidae Gill, 1871 (1854)

Orig. name

Melongena Schumacher, 1817

Synonymised names

Galeodes Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)

invalid: junior homonym of Galeodes Olivi, 1791 [Arachnida]

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Species Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Melongena paradisaica (Röding, 1798) accepted as Volema paradisiaca Röding, 1798 accepted as Volema pyrum (Gmelin, 1791) (misspelling)
Species Melongena pirum Dautzenberg, 1929 accepted as Volema pyrum (Gmelin, 1791) (unjustified emendation)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 64, 212 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Melongena Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205587 on 2024-04-16

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Melongena Schumacher, 1817. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205587 on 2024-04-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2002-01-03 17:34:20Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2012-01-11 17:52:07Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2018-11-21 15:02:08Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 64, 212 [details]

original description (of Galeodes Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biologia Tropical. 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors

additional source Clench, W. J. (1954). Galeodes, Busycon and Melongena. The Nautilus. 67(4): 139., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8514771 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Galeodes Röding, 1798)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Galeodes Röding, 1798)
To ITIS

From other sources

Melongena melongena

Image from typetaxon