African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Melanella major (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)

AfReMaS taxon details

Melanella major (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)

AphiaID

764597 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:764597)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Melanella Bowdich, 1822

Orig. name

Eulima major G. B. Sowerby I, 1834

Synonymised names

Eulima major G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Eulima major G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1832-1841). The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London, privately published. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109863
page(s): 52, figs. 1, 1*, 1** [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Melanella major (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2023) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas%20/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=764597 on 2023-11-30

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) (2023). African Register of Marine Species. Melanella major (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=764597 on 2023-11-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-06-02 07:37:30Z

created

Sartori, André F.

2021-07-02 13:14:45Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Eulima major G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1832-1841). The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London, privately published. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109863
page(s): 52, figs. 1, 1*, 1** [details]

basis of record Okutani T., ed. (2000) Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokai University Press. 1173 pp.
page(s): 344-345 [details]

basis of record Hylleberg, J. & Kilburn., R. N. 2003. Marine molluscs of Vietnam. Annotations, voucher material, and species in need of verification Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 28: 1-300. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (70 publications) (from synonym Eulima major G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)

From other sources

Melanella major