WoRMS taxon details
Melina Philipsson, 1788
AphiaID: 205625
AphiaID: 205625
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pterioida (Order) > Pterioidea (Superfamily) > Pteriidae (Family) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Isognomon Lightfoot, 1786 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Ostrea ephippium Linnaeus, 1758 (type by subsequent designation) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Pteriidae Gray, 1847 (1820) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Source |
additional source: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research.
Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Melina dentifera (Krauss, 1848) accepted as Perna dentifera (Krauss, 1848) accepted as Isognomon nucleus (Lamarck, 1819) Species Melina ephippium (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Isognomon ephippium (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Melina periculosa Iredale, 1939 accepted as Isognomon ephippium (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Melina perna (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Melina pernaeformis Philipsson, 1788 accepted as Isognomon perna (Linnaeus, 1767) Species Melina semiaurita Dall & Simpson, 1901 accepted as Isognomon bicolor (C. B. Adams, 1845) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205625 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Huber, M. (2013). Melina Philipsson, 1788. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205625 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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