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Melina Philipsson, 1788
AphiaID: 205625

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pterioida (Order) > Pterioidea (Superfamily) > Pteriidae (Family)

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Record
status

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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. [details]

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Species Melina dentifera (Krauss, 1848) accepted as Perna dentifera (Krauss, 1848)
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

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z	created	Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-08-21 16:11:41Z	changed	Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-09-10 13:08:08Z	changed	Huber, Markus
2011-03-12 15:24:03Z	changed	Bouchet, Philippe
2011-12-27 04:17:00Z	changed	Bouchet, Philippe

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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 2013-05-23

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