WoRMS taxon details
Melo amphora (Lightfoot, 1786)
AphiaID: 385403
AphiaID: 385403
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Volutidae (Family) > Amoriinae (Subfamily) > Meloini (Tribe) > Melo (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Melo Broderip in Sowerby I, 1826 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cymbium flammeum Röding, 1798 (synonym) Voluta armata Lamarck, 1811 (synonym) Voluta cithara Lightfoot, 1786 (synonym) Voluta diadema Lamarck, 1811 (synonym) Voluta haustrum Lightfoot, 1786 (synonym) Voluta regia Schubert & Wagner, 1829 (synonym) | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co.. London. viii + 194 pp., available online at http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/reference?id=1341 [details] basis of record: 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] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Melo amphora knighti Jackson, 1954 | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||
| Note |
Synonymy: Melo amphora knighti Jackson, 1954, is also considered as a synonym of the present species [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:385403 | |||||||
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| Citation: Bail, P. (2013). Melo amphora (Lightfoot, 1786). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385403 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||
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