African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Melanella iotoides Bartsch, 1916

AfReMaS taxon details

Melanella iotoides Bartsch, 1916

AphiaID

565828 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:565828)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Melanella Bowdich, 1822

Original name

Melanella iotoides Bartsch, 1916

Environment

marine

Original description

Bartsch, P. (1916). Melanella iotoides. The Nautilus. 30(6): 72., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1748610#page/86/mode/1up
note: Nom. nov. for Melanella iota Bartsch, 1915, non Eulima iota C. B. Adams, 1852. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Melanella iotoides Bartsch, 1916. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565828 on 2026-09-07

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) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Melanella iotoides Bartsch, 1916. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565828 on 2026-09-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-03-24 09:43:39Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2020-06-22 07:58:03Z

checked

Herbert, David

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original description Bartsch, P. (1916). Melanella iotoides. The Nautilus. 30(6): 72., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1748610#page/86/mode/1up
note: Nom. nov. for Melanella iota Bartsch, 1915, non Eulima iota C. B. Adams, 1852. [details]

basis of record Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection