WoRMS taxon details
Melongena Schumacher, 1817
AphiaID: 205587
AphiaID: 205587
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Melongenidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Melongenidae Gill, 1871 (1854) | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Galeodes Röding, 1798 (non Olivi, 1791) | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Melongena bicolor (Say, 1826) Species Melongena bispinosa (Philippi, 1844) Species Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791) Species Melongena melongena (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Melongena patula (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Melongena sprucecreekensis Tucker, 1994 Species Melongena paradisaica (Röding, 1798) accepted as Volema paradisiaca Röding, 1798 accepted as Volema pyrum (Gmelin, 1791) Species Melongena paradisiaca (Röding, 1798) accepted as Volema paradisiaca Röding, 1798 accepted as Volema pyrum (Gmelin, 1791) Species Melongena pirum Dautzenberg, 1929 accepted as Volema pyrum (Gmelin, 1791) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205587 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Melongena Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205587 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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