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Melo melo ([Lightfoot], 1786)

215200  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215200)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Neogastropoda (Order)
  7. Volutoidea (Superfamily)
  8. Volutidae (Family)
  9. Amoriinae (Subfamily)
  10. Melonini (Tribe)
  11. Melo (Genus)
  12. Melo melo (Species)
accepted
Species
marine
(of ) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 3 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melo melo (Lightfoot, 1786). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215200 on 2025-12-07
Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Melo melo ([Lightfoot], 1786). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215200 on 2025-12-07
Date
action
by
2001-12-06 12:04:48Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-03-17 12:46:50Z
changed
Bail, Patrice

original description (of ) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. <em>[book].</em> London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 3 [details] 

context source (HKRMS) Morton, B. & Morton, J. (1983). <i>The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong</i>. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 350 pp. [details] 

basis of record Bail, P.; Poppe, G.T. (2001). A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. <em>ConchBooks, Hackenheim.</em> 30 pp, 5 pl. (updated October 2008 for WoRMS). [details] 

basis of record Dharma, B. (2023). Species of <i>Melo</i> Broderip in Sowerby I, 1826 fom the Indonesian archipelago, with the description of two new species (Gastropoda: Volutidae). <em>Novapex.</em> 24(1): 1-20.
page(s): 3, figs 2A-F, U [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
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To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Cymbium melo ([Lightfoot], 1786))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Cymbium indicum (Gmelin, 1791))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Melo melo) 
To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 24 proteins) 
To Malacopics (Melo melo ([Lightfoot], 1786) India, Tamil Nadu, Ramanathapuram, ex coll. F.J.A. Sl... 
To Malacopics (Melo melo ([Lightfoot], 1786) Taiwan, Kaohsiung, at 35-70 m depth, juvenile specime... 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
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