WoRMS taxon details
Melo aethiopica (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 215199
AphiaID: 215199
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Volutidae (Family) > Amoriinae (Subfamily) > Meloini (Tribe) > Melo (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (incorrect gender ending) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Melo aethiopicus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Melo Broderip in Sowerby I, 1826 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cymbium aethiopicum (Linnaeus, 1758) Voluta aethiopica Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
additional source: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21-74 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Bail P. & Poppe G.T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl. (updated October 2008 for WoRMS) [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Distribution: Indonesia (Abbott & Dance, 1986) [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215199 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Bail, P. (2013). Melo aethiopica (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215199 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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