Canadian Register of Marine Species - Melanella Bowdich, 1822

CaRMS taxon details

Melanella Bowdich, 1822

AphiaID

137978 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137978)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Eulimidae R. A. Philippi, 1853

Orig. name

Melanella Bowdich, 1822

Direct children (7)

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Species Melanella chariessa (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
Species Melanella insculpta Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Species Melanella lucida (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
Species Melanella oleacea (Kurtz & W. Stimpson, 1851)
Species Melanella polita (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Melanella intermedia (Cantraine, 1835) accepted as Melanella polita (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Melanella sarsi (K. J. Bush, 1909) accepted as Eulima sarsi K. J. Bush, 1909

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Bowdich, T.E. (1822). Elements of conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part I. Univalves. 79 pp., 19 pls. Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45861
page(s): 27 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melanella Bowdich, 1822. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2021) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137978 on 2024-04-19

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2024). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Melanella Bowdich, 1822. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137978 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2013-09-07 02:55:47Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2017-07-02 00:47:59Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-10-25 07:36:02Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

[taxonomic tree]

original description Bowdich, T.E. (1822). Elements of conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part I. Univalves. 79 pp., 19 pls. Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45861
page(s): 27 [details]

basis of record Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies. suppl 13: 1-96.
page(s): 54 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From other sources

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
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